CVE-2021-46955
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2021
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
openvswitch: fix stack OOB read while fragmenting IPv4 packets
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: openvswitch: fix stack OOB read while fragmenting IPv4 packets running openvswitch on kernels built with KASAN, it's possible to see the following splat while testing fragmentation of IPv4 packets: BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in ip_do_fragment+0x1b03/0x1f60 Read of size 1 at addr ffff888112fc713c by task handler2/1367 CPU: 0 PID: 1367 Comm: handler2 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc6+ #418 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.1-4.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x92/0xc1 print_address_description.constprop.7+0x1a/0x150 kasan_report.cold.13+0x7f/0x111 ip_do_fragment+0x1b03/0x1f60 ovs_fragment+0x5bf/0x840 [openvswitch] do_execute_actions+0x1bd5/0x2400 [openvswitch] ovs_execute_actions+0xc8/0x3d0 [openvswitch] ovs_packet_cmd_execute+0xa39/0x1150 [openvswitch] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15+0x227/0x2d0 genl_rcv_msg+0x287/0x490 netlink_rcv_skb+0x120/0x380 genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 netlink_unicast+0x439/0x630 netlink_sendmsg+0x719/0xbf0 sock_sendmsg+0xe2/0x110 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5ba/0x890 ___sys_sendmsg+0xe9/0x160 __sys_sendmsg+0xd3/0x170 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f957079db07 Code: c3 66 90 41 54 41 89 d4 55 48 89 f5 53 89 fb 48 83 ec 10 e8 eb ec ff ff 44 89 e2 48 89 ee 89 df 41 89 c0 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 35 44 89 c7 48 89 44 24 08 e8 24 ed ff ff 48 RSP: 002b:00007f956ce35a50 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000019 RCX: 00007f957079db07 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007f956ce35ae0 RDI: 0000000000000019 RBP: 00007f956ce35ae0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007f9558006730 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007f956ce37308 R14: 00007f956ce35f80 R15: 00007f956ce35ae0 The buggy address belongs to the page: page:00000000af2a1d93 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x112fc7 flags: 0x17ffffc0000000() raw: 0017ffffc0000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected addr ffff888112fc713c is located in stack of task handler2/1367 at offset 180 in frame: ovs_fragment+0x0/0x840 [openvswitch] this frame has 2 objects: [32, 144) 'ovs_dst' [192, 424) 'ovs_rt' Memory state around the buggy address: ffff888112fc7000: f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffff888112fc7080: 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >ffff888112fc7100: 00 00 00 f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ^ ffff888112fc7180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffff888112fc7200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 for IPv4 packets, ovs_fragment() uses a temporary struct dst_entry. Then, in the following call graph: ip_do_fragment() ip_skb_dst_mtu() ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward() ip_mtu_locked() the pointer to struct dst_entry is used as pointer to struct rtable: this turns the access to struct members like rt_mtu_locked into an OOB read in the stack. Fix this changing the temporary variable used for IPv4 packets in ovs_fragment(), similarly to what is done for IPv6 few lines below.
Scoped product and version facts
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.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 119bbaa6795a4f4aed46994cc7d9ab01989c87e3 | affected | git | b1d7280f9ba1bfdbc3af5bdb82e51f014854f26f | Unavailable | None listed |
| d543907a4730400f5c5b684c57cb5bbbfd6136ab | affected | git | 23e17ec1a5eb53fe39cc34fa5592686d5acd0dac | Unavailable | None listed |
| 8387fbac8e18e26a60559adc63e0b7067303b0a4 | affected | git | 5a52fa8ad45b5a593ed416adf326538638454ff1 | Unavailable | None listed |
| d52e5a7e7ca49457dd31fc8b42fb7c0d58a31221 | affected | git | df9e900de24637be41879e2c50afb713ec4e8b2e | Unavailable | None listed |
| d52e5a7e7ca49457dd31fc8b42fb7c0d58a31221 | affected | git | 490ad0a2390442d0a7b8c00972a83dbb09cab142 | Unavailable | None listed |
| d52e5a7e7ca49457dd31fc8b42fb7c0d58a31221 | affected | git | a1478374b0bda89b4277a8afd39208271faad4be | Unavailable | None listed |
| d52e5a7e7ca49457dd31fc8b42fb7c0d58a31221 | affected | git | d841d3cf5297fde4ce6a41ff35451d0e82917f3e | Unavailable | None listed |
| d52e5a7e7ca49457dd31fc8b42fb7c0d58a31221 | affected | git | b3502b04e84ac5349be95fc033c17bd701d2787a | Unavailable | None listed |
| d52e5a7e7ca49457dd31fc8b42fb7c0d58a31221 | affected | git | 7c0ea5930c1c211931819d83cfb157bff1539a4c | Unavailable | None listed |
| df9ece1148e2ec242871623dedb004f7a1387125 | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 4.4.134 | affected | semver | 4.4.269 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 4.9.104 | affected | semver | 4.9.269 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 4.14.45 | affected | semver | 4.14.233 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3.16.57 | affected | semver | 3.17 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.16 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 4.16 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 4.4.269 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 4.4.* | None listed |
| 4.9.269 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 4.9.* | None listed |
| 4.14.233 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 4.14.* | None listed |
| 4.19.191 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 4.19.* | None listed |
| 5.4.118 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.4.* | None listed |
| 5.10.36 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.11.20 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.11.* | None listed |
| 5.12.3 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.12.* | None listed |
| 5.13 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |