CVE-2021-20317 (GCVE-0-2021-20317)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-09-27 10:34 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:37
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Summary
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A corrupted timer tree caused the task wakeup to be missing in the timerqueue_add function in lib/timerqueue.c. This flaw allows a local attacker with special user privileges to cause a denial of service, slowing and eventually stopping the system while running OSP.
Severity
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a kernel Affected: Kernel 5.3 rc1
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