Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: Fixed an issue where inode lists were leaked during backref walking in findparentnodes. During backref walking, when findparentnodes is called, if we are dealing with a data extent and an error occurs while resolving...

The vulnerabilities in the functions prelim_release() and find_parent_nodes() of the fs/btrfs/backref.c module in the btrfs file system of the Linux operating system allow a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the functions prelimrelease and findparentnodes in the fs/btrfs/backref.c file from the Btrfs file system in the Linux operating system is related to the execution of a loop with an unreachable exit condition «Infinite loop». Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an...