# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47014"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-28T08:13:31.513Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:45:35.578Z"
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-2021-47014"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47014.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47014"
title: "net/sched: act_ct: fix wild memory access when clearing fragments"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: act_ct: fix wild memory access when clearing fragments\n\nwhile testing re-assembly/re-fragmentation using act_ct, it's possible to\nobserve a crash like the following one:\n\n KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0x0001000000000448-0x000100000000044f]\n CPU: 50 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/50 Tainted: G S                5.12.0-rc7+ #424\n Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/072T6D, BIOS 2.4.3 01/17/2017\n RIP: 0010:inet_frag_rbtree_purge+0x50/0xc0\n Code: 00 fc ff df 48 89 c3 31 ed 48 89 df e8 a9 7a 38 ff 4c 89 fe 48 89 df 49 89 c6 e8 5b 3a 38 ff 48 8d 7b 40 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 \u003c42\u003e 80 3c 20 00 75 59 48 8d bb d0 00 00 00 4c 8b 6b 40 48 89 f8 48\n RSP: 0018:ffff888c31449db8 EFLAGS: 00010203\n RAX: 0000200000000089 RBX: 000100000000040e RCX: ffffffff989eb960\n RDX: 0000000000000140 RSI: ffffffff97cfb977 RDI: 000100000000044e\n RBP: 0000000000000900 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffed1186289350\n R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffed1186289350 R12: dffffc0000000000\n R13: 000100000000040e R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888155e02160\n FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888c31440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 00005600cb70a5b8 CR3: 0000000a2c014005 CR4: 00000000003706e0\n DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cIRQ\u003e\n  inet_frag_destroy+0xa9/0x150\n  call_timer_fn+0x2d/0x180\n  run_timer_softirq+0x4fe/0xe70\n  __do_softirq+0x197/0x5a0\n  irq_exit_rcu+0x1de/0x200\n  sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x80\n  \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n\nwhen act_ct temporarily stores an IP fragment, restoring the skb qdisc cb\nresults in putting random data in FRAG_CB(), and this causes those \"wild\"\nmemory accesses later, when the rbtree is purged. Never overwrite the skb\ncb in case tcf_ct_handle_fragments() returns -EINPROGRESS."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ae372cb1750f6c95370f92fe5f5620e0954663ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0648941f4c8bbf8b4b6c0b270889ae7aa769b921"},{"version":"ae372cb1750f6c95370f92fe5f5620e0954663ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f77bd544a6bbe69aa50d9ed09f13494cf36ff806"},{"version":"fbff97eb6f4a94a3f15f685bed604c9adc29ac3e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.7.12","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.12.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.12.*"},{"version":"5.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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