# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-46913"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-27T06:53:52.780Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:45:04.197Z"
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-2021-46913"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46913.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46913"
title: "netfilter: nftables: clone set element expression template"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nftables: clone set element expression template\n\nmemcpy() breaks when using connlimit in set elements. Use\nnft_expr_clone() to initialize the connlimit expression list, otherwise\nconnlimit garbage collector crashes when walking on the list head copy.\n\n[  493.064656] Workqueue: events_power_efficient nft_rhash_gc [nf_tables]\n[  493.064685] RIP: 0010:find_or_evict+0x5a/0x90 [nf_conncount]\n[  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 \u003c48\u003e 89 42 08 48 89 10 48 b8 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 48 89 03 48 83\n[  493.064699] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000417dc0 EFLAGS: 00010297\n[  493.064704] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888134f38410 RCX: 0000000000000000\n[  493.064708] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff888134f38410 RDI: ffff888100060cc0\n[  493.064711] RBP: ffff88812ce594a8 R08: ffff888134f38438 R09: 00000000ebb9025c\n[  493.064714] R10: ffffffff8219f838 R11: 0000000000000017 R12: 0000000000000001\n[  493.064718] R13: ffffffff82146740 R14: ffff888134f38410 R15: 0000000000000000\n[  493.064721] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88840e440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[  493.064725] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[  493.064729] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 00000001330aa002 CR4: 00000000001706e0\n[  493.064733] Call Trace:\n[  493.064737]  nf_conncount_gc_list+0x8f/0x150 [nf_conncount]\n[  493.064746]  nft_rhash_gc+0x106/0x390 [nf_tables]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4094445229760d0d31a4190dfe88fe815c9fc34e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e51ff3ffc316377cca21de8b80404eed0c37b3c3"},{"version":"4094445229760d0d31a4190dfe88fe815c9fc34e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47d8de3c226574a3ddb8b87d0c152028d1bafef4"},{"version":"4094445229760d0d31a4190dfe88fe815c9fc34e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4d8f9065830e526c83199186c5f56a6514f457d2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"5.10.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.11.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.11.*"},{"version":"5.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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