A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A denial of service problem is identified if an extent tree is corrupted in a crafted ext4 filesystem in fs/ext4/extents.c in ext4_es_cache_extent. Fabricating an integer overflow, A local attacker with a special user privilege may cause a system crash problem which can lead to an availability threat.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2022-03-04T17:19:22

Updated: 2024-08-03T16:53:17.577Z

Reserved: 2021-03-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-3428

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-03-04T18:15:08.130

Modified: 2022-03-11T15:39:51.520

Link: CVE-2021-3428

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-01-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-3428 - Bugzilla