CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-28971
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-03-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-755
Description
In intel_pmu_drain_pebs_nhm in arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8 on some Haswell CPUs, userspace applications (such as perf-fuzzer) can cause a system crash because the PEBS status in a PEBS record is mishandled, aka CID-d88d05a9e0b6.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 5.11.8)
• fedoraproject fedora 32
• fedoraproject fedora 33
• fedoraproject fedora 34
• debian debian linux 9.0
• netapp cloud backup
• netapp solidfire baseboard management controller firmware
• netapp aff a250 firmware
• netapp aff 500f firmware
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d88d05a9e0b6d9356e97129d4ff9942d765f46ea Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4VCKIOXCOZGXBEZMO5LGGV5MWCHO6FT3/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PTRNPQTZ4GVS46SZ4OBXY5YDOGVPSTGQ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T2S3I4SLRNRUQDOFYUS6IUAZMQNMPNLG/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210430-0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d88d05a9e0b6d9356e97129d4ff9942d765f46ea Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4VCKIOXCOZGXBEZMO5LGGV5MWCHO6FT3/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PTRNPQTZ4GVS46SZ4OBXY5YDOGVPSTGQ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T2S3I4SLRNRUQDOFYUS6IUAZMQNMPNLG/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210430-0003/ Third Party Advisory