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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-4439" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-06-20T12:07:57.944Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:43:56.841Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:36.661Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-4439" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-4439.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4439" title: "isdn: cpai: check ctr-\u003ecnr to avoid array index out of bound" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nisdn: cpai: check ctr-\u003ecnr to avoid array index out of bound\n\nThe cmtp_add_connection() would add a cmtp session to a controller\nand run a kernel thread to process cmtp.\n\n\t__module_get(THIS_MODULE);\n\tsession-\u003etask = kthread_run(cmtp_session, session, \"kcmtpd_ctr_%d\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsession-\u003enum);\n\nDuring this process, the kernel thread would call detach_capi_ctr()\nto detach a register controller. if the controller\nwas not attached yet, detach_capi_ctr() would\ntrigger an array-index-out-bounds bug.\n\n[ 46.866069][ T6479] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in\ndrivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c:483:21\n[ 46.867196][ T6479] index -1 is out of range for type 'capi_ctr *[32]'\n[ 46.867982][ T6479] CPU: 1 PID: 6479 Comm: kcmtpd_ctr_0 Not tainted\n5.15.0-rc2+ #8\n[ 46.869002][ T6479] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX,\n1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014\n[ 46.870107][ T6479] Call Trace:\n[ 46.870473][ T6479] dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d\n[ 46.870974][ T6479] ubsan_epilogue+0x5/0x40\n[ 46.871458][ T6479] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds.cold+0x43/0x48\n[ 46.872135][ T6479] detach_capi_ctr+0x64/0xc0\n[ 46.872639][ T6479] cmtp_session+0x5c8/0x5d0\n[ 46.873131][ T6479] ? __init_waitqueue_head+0x60/0x60\n[ 46.873712][ T6479] ? cmtp_add_msgpart+0x120/0x120\n[ 46.874256][ T6479] kthread+0x147/0x170\n[ 46.874709][ T6479] ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40\n[ 46.875248][ T6479] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\n[ 46.875773][ T6479]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8b8de17e164c9f1b7777f1c6f99d05539000036"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"24219a977bfe3d658687e45615c70998acdbac5a"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b6b2db77bc3121fe435f1d4b56e34de443bec75"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d91adc0ccb060ce564103315189466eb822cc6a"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"285e9210b1fab96a11c0be3ed5cea9dd48b6ac54"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7f221ccbee4ec662e2292d490a43ce6c314c4594"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc20226e218a2375d50dd9ac14fb4121b43375ff"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f3e2e97c003f80c4b087092b225c8787ff91e4d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"4.4.290","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.4.*"},{"version":"4.9.288","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.253","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.214","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.76","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.14.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.14.*"},{"version":"5.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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