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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2021-46958 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix race between transaction aborts and fsyncs leading to use-after-free There is a race between a task aborting a transaction during a commit, a task doing an fsync and the transaction kthread, which le

[NVD] CVE-2021-46958 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix race between transaction aborts and fsyncs leading to use-after-free There is a race between a task aborting a transaction during a commit, a task doing an fsync and the transaction kthread, which le

lownvdPublished 2024-02-27

CVE-2021-46958 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2024-02-27T19:04:06.813

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix race between transaction aborts and fsyncs leading to use-after-free

There is a race between a task aborting a transaction during a commit, a task doing an fsync and the transaction kthread, which leads to an use-after-free of the log root tree. When th

Indicators of compromise

CVE-2021-46958cve
rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.orgdomain

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46958