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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-46951" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-02-27T18:40:34.757Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:45:04.916Z" 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-2021-46951" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46951.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46951" title: "tpm: efi: Use local variable for calculating final log size" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntpm: efi: Use local variable for calculating final log size\n\nWhen tpm_read_log_efi is called multiple times, which happens when\none loads and unloads a TPM2 driver multiple times, then the global\nvariable efi_tpm_final_log_size will at some point become a negative\nnumber due to the subtraction of final_events_preboot_size occurring\neach time. Use a local variable to avoid this integer underflow.\n\nThe following issue is now resolved:\n\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: Workqueue: tpm-vtpm vtpm_proxy_work [tpm_vtpm_proxy]\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: RIP: 0010:__memcpy+0x12/0x20\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: Code: 00 b8 01 00 00 00 85 d2 74 0a c7 05 44 7b ef 00 0f 00 00 00 c3 cc cc cc 66 66 90 66 90 48 89 f8 48 89 d1 48 c1 e9 03 83 e2 07 \u003cf3\u003e 48 a5 89 d1 f3 a4 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 d1 f3 a4\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff9ac4c0fcfde0 EFLAGS: 00010206\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: RAX: ffff88f878cefed5 RBX: ffff88f878ce9000 RCX: 1ffffffffffffe0f\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: ffff9ac4c003bff9 RDI: ffff88f878cf0e4d\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: RBP: ffff9ac4c003b000 R08: 0000000000001000 R09: 000000007e9d6073\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: R10: ffff9ac4c003b000 R11: ffff88f879ad3500 R12: 0000000000000ed5\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: R13: ffff88f878ce9760 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: ffff88f77de7f018\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88f87bd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: CR2: ffff9ac4c003c000 CR3: 00000001785a6004 CR4: 0000000000060ee0\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: Call Trace:\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: tpm_read_log_efi+0x152/0x1a7\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: tpm_bios_log_setup+0xc8/0x1c0\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: tpm_chip_register+0x8f/0x260\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: vtpm_proxy_work+0x16/0x60 [tpm_vtpm_proxy]\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: process_one_work+0x1b4/0x370\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: worker_thread+0x53/0x3e0\nMar 8 15:35:12 hibinst kernel: ? process_one_work+0x370/0x370" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"166a2809d65b282272c474835ec22c882a39ca1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2f12258b5224cfaa808c54fd29345f3c1cbfca76"},{"version":"166a2809d65b282272c474835ec22c882a39ca1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"60a01ecc9f68067e4314a0b55148e39e5d58a51b"},{"version":"166a2809d65b282272c474835ec22c882a39ca1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3818b753277f5ca0c170bf5b98e0a5a225542fcb"},{"version":"166a2809d65b282272c474835ec22c882a39ca1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac07c557ca12ec9276c0375517bac7ae5be4e50c"},{"version":"166a2809d65b282272c474835ec22c882a39ca1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"48cff270b037022e37835d93361646205ca25101"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"version":"5.4.118","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.11.20","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.11.*"},{"version":"5.12.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.12.*"},{"version":"5.13","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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