CVE-2021-28951

Name	CVE-2021-28951
Description	An issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) because exit may be waiting to park a SQPOLL thread, but concurrently that SQPOLL thread is waiting for a signal to start, aka CID-3ebba796fa25.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	stretch	4.9.228-1	fixed
	stretch (security)	4.9.258-1	fixed
	buster	4.19.181-1	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.171-2	fixed
	bullseye, sid	5.10.28-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux	source	stretch	(not affected)
linux	source	buster	(not affected)
linux	source	(unstable)	5.10.26-1

Notes

[buster] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[stretch] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/3ebba796fa251d042be42b929a2d916ee5c34a49