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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-46999" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-02-28T08:13:22.256Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:45:28.974Z" 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-2021-46999" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46999.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46999" title: "sctp: do asoc update earlier in sctp_sf_do_dupcook_a" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: do asoc update earlier in sctp_sf_do_dupcook_a\n\nThere's a panic that occurs in a few of envs, the call trace is as below:\n\n [] general protection fault, ... 0x29acd70f1000a: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\n [] RIP: 0010:sctp_ulpevent_notify_peer_addr_change+0x4b/0x1fa [sctp]\n [] sctp_assoc_control_transport+0x1b9/0x210 [sctp]\n [] sctp_do_8_2_transport_strike.isra.16+0x15c/0x220 [sctp]\n [] sctp_cmd_interpreter.isra.21+0x1231/0x1a10 [sctp]\n [] sctp_do_sm+0xc3/0x2a0 [sctp]\n [] sctp_generate_timeout_event+0x81/0xf0 [sctp]\n\nThis is caused by a transport use-after-free issue. When processing a\nduplicate COOKIE-ECHO chunk in sctp_sf_do_dupcook_a(), both COOKIE-ACK\nand SHUTDOWN chunks are allocated with the transort from the new asoc.\nHowever, later in the sideeffect machine, the old asoc is used to send\nthem out and old asoc's shutdown_last_sent_to is set to the transport\nthat SHUTDOWN chunk attached to in sctp_cmd_setup_t2(), which actually\nbelongs to the new asoc. After the new_asoc is freed and the old asoc\nT2 timeout, the old asoc's shutdown_last_sent_to that is already freed\nwould be accessed in sctp_sf_t2_timer_expire().\n\nThanks Alexander and Jere for helping dig into this issue.\n\nTo fix it, this patch is to do the asoc update first, then allocate\nthe COOKIE-ACK and SHUTDOWN chunks with the 'updated' old asoc. This\nwould make more sense, as a chunk from an asoc shouldn't be sent out\nwith another asoc. We had fixed quite a few issues caused by this." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"db8bf823e70f239372c62f13e4eb6f08a1665e8c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d624f2991b977821375fbd56c91b0c91d456a697"},{"version":"a204d577be70e0a0a6023cf1b9859c9ebffaeecd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1b31948c0af44628e43353828453461bb74098f"},{"version":"145cb2f7177d94bc54563ed26027e952ee0ae03c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f01988ecf3654f805282dce2d3bb9afe68d2691e"},{"version":"145cb2f7177d94bc54563ed26027e952ee0ae03c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"61b877bad9bb0d82b7d8841be50872557090a704"},{"version":"145cb2f7177d94bc54563ed26027e952ee0ae03c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0bfd913c2121b3d553bfd52810fe6061d542d625"},{"version":"145cb2f7177d94bc54563ed26027e952ee0ae03c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"35b4f24415c854cd718ccdf38dbea6297f010aae"},{"version":"a5ce8531ea508d270822b2bc6140c6198c8a2a7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.19.123","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19.191"},{"version":"5.4.41","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.120"},{"version":"5.6.13","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"4.19.191","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.38","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.11.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.11.*"},{"version":"5.12.5","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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