CVE-2021-46913

CVE-2021-46913

High · published February 27, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nftables: clone set element expression template

memcpy() breaks when using connlimit in set elements. Use

nft_expr_clone() to initialize the connlimit expression list, otherwise

connlimit garbage collector crashes when walking on the list head copy.

[ 493.064656] Workqueue: events_power_efficient nft_rhash_gc [nf_tables]

[ 493.064685] RIP: 0010:find_or_evict+0x5a/0x90 [nf_conncount]

[ 493.064694] Code: 2b 43 40 83 f8 01 77 0d 48 c7 c0 f5 ff ff ff 44 39 63 3c 75 df 83 6d 18 01 48 8b 43 08 48 89 de 48 8b 13 48 8b 3d ee 2f 00 00 <48> 89 42 08 48 89 10 48 b8 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 48 89 03 48 83

[ 493.064699] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000417dc0 EFLAGS: 00010297

[ 493.064704] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888134f38410 RCX: 0000000000000000

[ 493.064708] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff888134f38410 RDI: ffff888100060cc0

[ 493.064711] RBP: ffff88812ce594a8 R08: ffff888134f38438 R09: 00000000ebb9025c

[ 493.064714] R10: ffffffff8219f838 R11: 0000000000000017 R12: 0000000000000001

[ 493.064718] R13: ffffffff82146740 R14: ffff888134f38410 R15: 0000000000000000

[ 493.064721] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88840e440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

[ 493.064725] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

[ 493.064729] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 00000001330aa002 CR4: 00000000001706e0

[ 493.064733] Call Trace:

[ 493.064737] nf_conncount_gc_list+0x8f/0x150 [nf_conncount]

[ 493.064746] nft_rhash_gc+0x106/0x390 [nf_tables]

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00243 · 14.7th percentile
Published
2024-02-27T12:15Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.7.0, < 5.10.645.10.64
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11.0, < 5.11.165.11.16
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 FEB 06:53Z
    netfilter: nftables: clone set element expression template
    cvelistv5