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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-46936" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-02-27T09:44:02.758Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:45:10.624Z" 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-2021-46936" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46936.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46936" title: "net: fix use-after-free in tw_timer_handler" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: fix use-after-free in tw_timer_handler\n\nA real world panic issue was found as follow in Linux 5.4.\n\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffde49a863de28\n PGD 7e6fe62067 P4D 7e6fe62067 PUD 7e6fe63067 PMD f51e064067 PTE 0\n RIP: 0010:tw_timer_handler+0x20/0x40\n Call Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n call_timer_fn+0x2b/0x120\n run_timer_softirq+0x1ef/0x450\n __do_softirq+0x10d/0x2b8\n irq_exit+0xc7/0xd0\n smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x68/0x120\n apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20\n\nThis issue was also reported since 2017 in the thread [1],\nunfortunately, the issue was still can be reproduced after fixing\nDCCP.\n\nThe ipv4_mib_exit_net is called before tcp_sk_exit_batch when a net\nnamespace is destroyed since tcp_sk_ops is registered befrore\nipv4_mib_ops, which means tcp_sk_ops is in the front of ipv4_mib_ops\nin the list of pernet_list. There will be a use-after-free on\nnet-\u003emib.net_statistics in tw_timer_handler after ipv4_mib_exit_net\nif there are some inflight time-wait timers.\n\nThis bug is not introduced by commit f2bf415cfed7 (\"mib: add net to\nNET_ADD_STATS_BH\") since the net_statistics is a global variable\ninstead of dynamic allocation and freeing. Actually, commit\n61a7e26028b9 (\"mib: put net statistics on struct net\") introduces\nthe bug since it put net statistics on struct net and free it when\nnet namespace is destroyed.\n\nMoving init_ipv4_mibs() to the front of tcp_init() to fix this bug\nand replace pr_crit() with panic() since continuing is meaningless\nwhen init_ipv4_mibs() fails.\n\n[1] https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller/c/p1tn-_Kc6l4/m/smuL_FMAAgAJ?pli=1" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"15579e1301f856ad9385d720c9267c11032a5022"},{"version":"61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e73164e89d1be561228a4534e1091369ee4ba41a"},{"version":"61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5c2fe20ad37ff56070ae0acb34152333976929b4"},{"version":"61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8e1944b44f94f5c5f530e434c5eaee787254566"},{"version":"61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fe5838c22b986c1190f1dce9aa09bf6a491c1a69"},{"version":"61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2386e81a1d277f540e1285565c9d41d531bb69d4"},{"version":"61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"08eacbd141e2495d2fcdde84358a06c4f95cbb13"},{"version":"61a7e26028b94805fd686a6dc9dbd9941f8f19b0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e22e45fc9e41bf9fcc1e92cfb78eb92786728ef0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.27","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.27"},{"version":"4.4.298","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.4.*"},{"version":"4.9.296","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"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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