{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2021-46955", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2024-02-27T18:42:55.937Z", "datePublished": "2024-02-27T18:46:57.428Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-23T15:18:45.511Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-23T15:18:45.511Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nopenvswitch: fix stack OOB read while fragmenting IPv4 packets\n\nrunning openvswitch on kernels built with KASAN, it's possible to see the\nfollowing splat while testing fragmentation of IPv4 packets:\n\n BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in ip_do_fragment+0x1b03/0x1f60\n Read of size 1 at addr ffff888112fc713c by task handler2/1367\n\n CPU: 0 PID: 1367 Comm: handler2 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc6+ #418\n Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.1-4.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab 04/01/2014\n Call Trace:\n dump_stack+0x92/0xc1\n print_address_description.constprop.7+0x1a/0x150\n kasan_report.cold.13+0x7f/0x111\n ip_do_fragment+0x1b03/0x1f60\n ovs_fragment+0x5bf/0x840 [openvswitch]\n do_execute_actions+0x1bd5/0x2400 [openvswitch]\n ovs_execute_actions+0xc8/0x3d0 [openvswitch]\n ovs_packet_cmd_execute+0xa39/0x1150 [openvswitch]\n genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15+0x227/0x2d0\n genl_rcv_msg+0x287/0x490\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x120/0x380\n genl_rcv+0x24/0x40\n netlink_unicast+0x439/0x630\n netlink_sendmsg+0x719/0xbf0\n sock_sendmsg+0xe2/0x110\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x5ba/0x890\n ___sys_sendmsg+0xe9/0x160\n __sys_sendmsg+0xd3/0x170\n do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n RIP: 0033:0x7f957079db07\n Code: c3 66 90 41 54 41 89 d4 55 48 89 f5 53 89 fb 48 83 ec 10 e8 eb ec ff ff 44 89 e2 48 89 ee 89 df 41 89 c0 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 35 44 89 c7 48 89 44 24 08 e8 24 ed ff ff 48\n RSP: 002b:00007f956ce35a50 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e\n RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000019 RCX: 00007f957079db07\n RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007f956ce35ae0 RDI: 0000000000000019\n RBP: 00007f956ce35ae0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007f9558006730\n R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000000000000000\n R13: 00007f956ce37308 R14: 00007f956ce35f80 R15: 00007f956ce35ae0\n\n The buggy address belongs to the page:\n page:00000000af2a1d93 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x112fc7\n flags: 0x17ffffc0000000()\n raw: 0017ffffc0000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000\n raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000\n page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected\n\n addr ffff888112fc713c is located in stack of task handler2/1367 at offset 180 in frame:\n ovs_fragment+0x0/0x840 [openvswitch]\n\n this frame has 2 objects:\n [32, 144) 'ovs_dst'\n [192, 424) 'ovs_rt'\n\n Memory state around the buggy address:\n ffff888112fc7000: f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n ffff888112fc7080: 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n >ffff888112fc7100: 00 00 00 f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n ^\n ffff888112fc7180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n ffff888112fc7200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n\nfor IPv4 packets, ovs_fragment() uses a temporary struct dst_entry. Then,\nin the following call graph:\n\n ip_do_fragment()\n ip_skb_dst_mtu()\n ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward()\n ip_mtu_locked()\n\nthe pointer to struct dst_entry is used as pointer to struct rtable: this\nturns the access to struct members like rt_mtu_locked into an OOB read in\nthe stack. Fix this changing the temporary variable used for IPv4 packets\nin ovs_fragment(), similarly to what is done for IPv6 few lines below." } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "net/openvswitch/actions.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "119bbaa6795a4f4aed46994cc7d9ab01989c87e3", "lessThan": "b1d7280f9ba1bfdbc3af5bdb82e51f014854f26f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "d543907a4730400f5c5b684c57cb5bbbfd6136ab", "lessThan": "23e17ec1a5eb53fe39cc34fa5592686d5acd0dac", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "8387fbac8e18e26a60559adc63e0b7067303b0a4", "lessThan": "5a52fa8ad45b5a593ed416adf326538638454ff1", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "d52e5a7e7ca49457dd31fc8b42fb7c0d58a31221", "lessThan": "df9e900de24637be41879e2c50afb713ec4e8b2e", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" 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