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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 22, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-28971

CVE-2021-28971

Description

In intel_pmu_drain_pebs_nhm in arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8 on some Haswell CPUs, userspace applications (such as perf-fuzzer) can cause a system crash because the PEBS status in a PEBS record is mishandled, aka CID-d88d05a9e0b6.

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