# 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-2021-46992"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-28T08:13:17.814Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:45:25.713Z"
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-2021-46992"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46992.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46992"
title: "netfilter: nftables: avoid overflows in nft_hash_buckets()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nftables: avoid overflows in nft_hash_buckets()\n\nNumber of buckets being stored in 32bit variables, we have to\nensure that no overflows occur in nft_hash_buckets()\n\nsyzbot injected a size == 0x40000000 and reported:\n\nUBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in ./include/linux/log2.h:57:13\nshift exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'long unsigned int'\nCPU: 1 PID: 29539 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc7-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011\nCall Trace:\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:79 [inline]\n dump_stack+0x141/0x1d7 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n ubsan_epilogue+0xb/0x5a lib/ubsan.c:148\n __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds.cold+0xb1/0x181 lib/ubsan.c:327\n __roundup_pow_of_two include/linux/log2.h:57 [inline]\n nft_hash_buckets net/netfilter/nft_set_hash.c:411 [inline]\n nft_hash_estimate.cold+0x19/0x1e net/netfilter/nft_set_hash.c:652\n nft_select_set_ops net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:3586 [inline]\n nf_tables_newset+0xe62/0x3110 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:4322\n nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0xa09/0x24b0 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:488\n nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:612 [inline]\n nfnetlink_rcv+0x3af/0x420 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:630\n netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1312 [inline]\n netlink_unicast+0x533/0x7d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338\n netlink_sendmsg+0x856/0xd90 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1927\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:654 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:674\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x6e8/0x810 net/socket.c:2350\n ___sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x170 net/socket.c:2404\n __sys_sendmsg+0xe5/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2433\n do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46"
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