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CVE-2021-3679

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.8%

Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A lack of CPU resource in the Linux kernel tracing module functionality in versions prior to 5.14-rc3 was found in the way user uses trace ring buffer in a specific way. Only privileged local users (with CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability) could use this flaw to starve the resources causing denial of service.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 55% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-835, CWE-400
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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