CVE-2021-3679: kernel

Uncontrolled resource consumption in kernel

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0075 · 55th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 5 Aug 2021, 19:54 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	kernel	affected kernel 5.14-rc3

Identifiers

CVE-2021-3679

CNA

redhat

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-400

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0075, the 55th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 5 Aug 2021. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1989165
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=67f0d6d9883c13174669f88adac4f0ee656cc16a
www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4978 vendor-advisorydebian
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00010.html mailing-listmlist
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00012.html mailing-listmlist

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.