GHSA-5fjr-c5p8-hxvj

GHSA-5fjr-c5p8-hxvj PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 24, 2022

btrfs in the Linux kernel before 5.13.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via processes that trigger allocation of new system chunks during times when there is a shortage of free space in the system space_info.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Timeline

May 24, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38203 advisory
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.13.4 url
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210902-0010 url
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1cb3db1cf383a3c7dbda1aa0ce748b0958759947 url

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