CVE-2021-45469: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In __f2fs_setxattr in fs/f2fs/xattr.c in the Linux kernel through 5.15.11, there is an out-of-bounds memory access when an inode has an invalid last xattr entry.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 34 only; version 35 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 5.15.11
• Netapp h300e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h300s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h500e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h500s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h700e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h700s Firmware: affected versions not specified

Published 2021-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.