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high 7.8

CVE-2021-29266 json

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.9.

published 2021-03-26 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-15904

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 24%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.9. drivers/vhost/vdpa.c has a use-after-free because v->config_ctx has an invalid value upon re-opening a character device, aka CID-f6bbf0010ba0.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 5.10.26, 5.11.9
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.10.26-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29266

  • linux-hwe-5.8 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.8.0-53.60~20.04.1
  • linux-oem-5.10 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.10.0-1025.26
  • linux-riscv-5.8 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.8.0-25.27~20.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2021-29266

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel CBL-Mariner 2.0 5.10.78.1-1

azure linux advisories AZL-6548

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

  • linux Arch Linux 5.11.9.arch1-1
  • linux-hardened Arch Linux 5.11.9.hardened1-1
  • linux-zen Arch Linux 5.11.9.zen1-1
  • linux-lts Arch Linux 5.10.26-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1716AVG-1717AVG-1718AVG-1719

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-29266 updated cvss 7.8

kernel: use-after-free in drivers/vhost/vdpa.c because v->config_ctx has an invalid value upon re-opening a character device

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-alt, python-perf, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +82 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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