# 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-2021-46998"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-28T08:13:21.651Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:45:27.902Z"
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-2021-46998"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46998.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46998"
title: "ethernet:enic: Fix a use after free bug in enic_hard_start_xmit"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nethernet:enic: Fix a use after free bug in enic_hard_start_xmit\n\nIn enic_hard_start_xmit, it calls enic_queue_wq_skb(). Inside\nenic_queue_wq_skb, if some error happens, the skb will be freed\nby dev_kfree_skb(skb). But the freed skb is still used in\nskb_tx_timestamp(skb).\n\nMy patch makes enic_queue_wq_skb() return error and goto spin_unlock()\nincase of error. The solution is provided by Govind.\nSee https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/30/961."
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