CVE-2021-29265 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2021-29265?

CVE-2021-29265 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 26 Mar 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.7. usbip_sockfd_store in drivers/usb/usbip/stub_dev.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (GPF) because the stub-up sequence has race conditions during an update of the local and shared status, aka CID-9380afd6df70.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-29265?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2021-29265?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2021-29265 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-29265 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-6547, DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29265, GHSA-mf3w-jjg3-f84m, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-29265.