# CVE-2021-28964: A race condition was discovered in get\_old\_root in fs/btrfs/ctree.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-03-22 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

A race condition was discovered in get_old_root in fs/btrfs/ctree.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (BUG) because of a lack of locking on an extent buffer before a cloning operation, aka CID-dbcc7d57bffc.

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dbcc7d57bffc0c8cac9dac11bec548597d59a6a5
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PTRNPQTZ4GVS46SZ4OBXY5YDOGVPSTGQ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4VCKIOXCOZGXBEZMO5LGGV5MWCHO6FT3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T2S3I4SLRNRUQDOFYUS6IUAZMQNMPNLG/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210430-0003/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00020.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00019.html

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