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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-46929" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-02-27T09:43:58.047Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:45:08.476Z" 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-2021-46929" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46929.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46929" title: "sctp: use call_rcu to free endpoint" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: use call_rcu to free endpoint\n\nThis patch is to delay the endpoint free by calling call_rcu() to fix\nanother use-after-free issue in sctp_sock_dump():\n\n BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0x36d9/0x4c20\n Call Trace:\n __lock_acquire+0x36d9/0x4c20 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3218\n lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x520 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3844\n __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:135 [inline]\n _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x31/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:168\n spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:334 [inline]\n __lock_sock+0x203/0x350 net/core/sock.c:2253\n lock_sock_nested+0xfe/0x120 net/core/sock.c:2774\n lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1492 [inline]\n sctp_sock_dump+0x122/0xb20 net/sctp/diag.c:324\n sctp_for_each_transport+0x2b5/0x370 net/sctp/socket.c:5091\n sctp_diag_dump+0x3ac/0x660 net/sctp/diag.c:527\n __inet_diag_dump+0xa8/0x140 net/ipv4/inet_diag.c:1049\n inet_diag_dump+0x9b/0x110 net/ipv4/inet_diag.c:1065\n netlink_dump+0x606/0x1080 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2244\n __netlink_dump_start+0x59a/0x7c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2352\n netlink_dump_start include/linux/netlink.h:216 [inline]\n inet_diag_handler_cmd+0x2ce/0x3f0 net/ipv4/inet_diag.c:1170\n __sock_diag_cmd net/core/sock_diag.c:232 [inline]\n sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x31d/0x410 net/core/sock_diag.c:263\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x172/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2477\n sock_diag_rcv+0x2a/0x40 net/core/sock_diag.c:274\n\nThis issue occurs when asoc is peeled off and the old sk is freed after\ngetting it by asoc-\u003ebase.sk and before calling lock_sock(sk).\n\nTo prevent the sk free, as a holder of the sk, ep should be alive when\ncalling lock_sock(). This patch uses call_rcu() and moves sock_put and\nep free into sctp_endpoint_destroy_rcu(), so that it's safe to try to\nhold the ep under rcu_read_lock in sctp_transport_traverse_process().\n\nIf sctp_endpoint_hold() returns true, it means this ep is still alive\nand we have held it and can continue to dump it; If it returns false,\nit means this ep is dead and can be freed after rcu_read_unlock, and\nwe should skip it.\n\nIn sctp_sock_dump(), after locking the sk, if this ep is different from\ntsp-\u003easoc-\u003eep, it means during this dumping, this asoc was peeled off\nbefore calling lock_sock(), and the sk should be skipped; If this ep is\nthe same with tsp-\u003easoc-\u003eep, it means no peeloff happens on this asoc,\nand due to lock_sock, no peeloff will happen either until release_sock.\n\nNote that delaying endpoint free won't delay the port release, as the\nport release happens in sctp_endpoint_destroy() before calling call_rcu().\nAlso, freeing endpoint by call_rcu() makes it safe to access the sk by\nasoc-\u003ebase.sk in sctp_assocs_seq_show() and sctp_rcv().\n\nThanks Jones to bring this issue up.\n\nv1-\u003ev2:\n - improve the changelog.\n - add kfree(ep) into sctp_endpoint_destroy_rcu(), as Jakub noticed." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d25adbeb0cdb860fb39e09cdd025e9cfc954c5ab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8873140f95d4977bf37e4cf0d5c5e3f6e34cdd3e"},{"version":"d25adbeb0cdb860fb39e09cdd025e9cfc954c5ab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af6e6e58f7ebf86b4e7201694b1e4f3a62cbc3ec"},{"version":"d25adbeb0cdb860fb39e09cdd025e9cfc954c5ab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"831de271452b87657fcf8d715ee20519b79caef5"},{"version":"d25adbeb0cdb860fb39e09cdd025e9cfc954c5ab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"769d14abd35e0e153b5149c3e1e989a9d719e3ff"},{"version":"d25adbeb0cdb860fb39e09cdd025e9cfc954c5ab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75799e71df1da11394740b43ae5686646179561d"},{"version":"d25adbeb0cdb860fb39e09cdd025e9cfc954c5ab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ec7d18d1813a5bead0b495045606c93873aecbb"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14"},{"version":"4.14.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.224","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.170","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.90","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16","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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