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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-4454" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-03-27T16:37:09.381Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:21:06.266Z" 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-2021-4454" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-4454.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4454" title: "can: j1939: fix errant WARN_ON_ONCE in j1939_session_deactivate" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncan: j1939: fix errant WARN_ON_ONCE in j1939_session_deactivate\n\nThe conclusion \"j1939_session_deactivate() should be called with a\nsession ref-count of at least 2\" is incorrect. In some concurrent\nscenarios, j1939_session_deactivate can be called with the session\nref-count less than 2. But there is not any problem because it\nwill check the session active state before session putting in\nj1939_session_deactivate_locked().\n\nHere is the concurrent scenario of the problem reported by syzbot\nand my reproduction log.\n\n cpu0 cpu1\n j1939_xtp_rx_eoma\nj1939_xtp_rx_abort_one\n j1939_session_get_by_addr [kref == 2]\nj1939_session_get_by_addr [kref == 3]\nj1939_session_deactivate [kref == 2]\nj1939_session_put [kref == 1]\n\t\t\t\tj1939_session_completed\n\t\t\t\tj1939_session_deactivate\n\t\t\t\tWARN_ON_ONCE(kref \u003c 2)\n\n=====================================================\nWARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 21 at net/can/j1939/transport.c:1088 j1939_session_deactivate+0x5f/0x70\nCPU: 1 PID: 21 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 5.14.0-rc7+ #32\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:j1939_session_deactivate+0x5f/0x70\nCall Trace:\n j1939_session_deactivate_activate_next+0x11/0x28\n j1939_xtp_rx_eoma+0x12a/0x180\n j1939_tp_recv+0x4a2/0x510\n j1939_can_recv+0x226/0x380\n can_rcv_filter+0xf8/0x220\n can_receive+0x102/0x220\n ? process_backlog+0xf0/0x2c0\n can_rcv+0x53/0xf0\n __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x67/0x90\n ? process_backlog+0x97/0x2c0\n __netif_receive_skb+0x22/0x80" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7eef18c0479ba5d9f54fba30cd77c233ebca3eb1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6950df42a03c9ac9290503ced3f371199cb68fa9"},{"version":"55dd22c5d029423f513fd849e633adf0e9c10d0c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b6d44072117bba057d50f7a2f96e5d070c65926d"},{"version":"0c71437dd50dd687c15d8ca80b3b68f10bb21d63","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ab896775f98ff54b68512f345eed178bf961084"},{"version":"0c71437dd50dd687c15d8ca80b3b68f10bb21d63","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1740a1e45eee65099a92fb502e1e67e63aad277d"},{"version":"0c71437dd50dd687c15d8ca80b3b68f10bb21d63","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d0553680f94c49bbe0e39eb50d033ba563b4212d"},{"version":"5e1fc537c1be332aef9621ca9146aeb3ba59522f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.4.138","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.232"},{"version":"5.10.56","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.168"},{"version":"5.13.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"version":"5.4.232","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.168","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","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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