# 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-2021-46960"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-27T18:46:59.919Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:45:14.917Z"
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-2021-46960"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46960.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46960"
title: "cifs: Return correct error code from smb2_get_enc_key"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncifs: Return correct error code from smb2_get_enc_key\n\nAvoid a warning if the error percolates back up:\n\n[440700.376476] CIFS VFS: \\\\otters.example.com crypt_message: Could not get encryption key\n[440700.386947] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[440700.386948] err = 1\n[440700.386977] WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 2733 at /build/linux-hwe-5.4-p6lk6L/linux-hwe-5.4-5.4.0/lib/errseq.c:74 errseq_set+0x5c/0x70\n...\n[440700.397304] CPU: 11 PID: 2733 Comm: tar Tainted: G           OE     5.4.0-70-generic #78~18.04.1-Ubuntu\n...\n[440700.397334] Call Trace:\n[440700.397346]  __filemap_set_wb_err+0x1a/0x70\n[440700.397419]  cifs_writepages+0x9c7/0xb30 [cifs]\n[440700.397426]  do_writepages+0x4b/0xe0\n[440700.397444]  __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xcb/0x100\n[440700.397455]  filemap_write_and_wait+0x42/0xa0\n[440700.397486]  cifs_setattr+0x68b/0xf30 [cifs]\n[440700.397493]  notify_change+0x358/0x4a0\n[440700.397500]  utimes_common+0xe9/0x1c0\n[440700.397510]  do_utimes+0xc5/0x150\n[440700.397520]  __x64_sys_utimensat+0x88/0xd0"
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