# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47136"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-25T09:07:36.064Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:46:16.463Z"
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-2021-47136"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47136.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47136"
title: "net: zero-initialize tc skb extension on allocation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: zero-initialize tc skb extension on allocation\n\nFunction skb_ext_add() doesn't initialize created skb extension with any\nvalue and leaves it up to the user. However, since extension of type\nTC_SKB_EXT originally contained only single value tc_skb_ext-\u003echain its\nusers used to just assign the chain value without setting whole extension\nmemory to zero first. This assumption changed when TC_SKB_EXT extension was\nextended with additional fields but not all users were updated to\ninitialize the new fields which leads to use of uninitialized memory\nafterwards. UBSAN log:\n\n[  778.299821] UBSAN: invalid-load in net/openvswitch/flow.c:899:28\n[  778.301495] load of value 107 is not a valid value for type '_Bool'\n[  778.303215] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc7+ #2\n[  778.304933] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n[  778.307901] Call Trace:\n[  778.308680]  \u003cIRQ\u003e\n[  778.309358]  dump_stack+0xbb/0x107\n[  778.310307]  ubsan_epilogue+0x5/0x40\n[  778.311167]  __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value.cold+0x43/0x48\n[  778.312454]  ? memset+0x20/0x40\n[  778.313230]  ovs_flow_key_extract.cold+0xf/0x14 [openvswitch]\n[  778.314532]  ovs_vport_receive+0x19e/0x2e0 [openvswitch]\n[  778.315749]  ? ovs_vport_find_upcall_portid+0x330/0x330 [openvswitch]\n[  778.317188]  ? create_prof_cpu_mask+0x20/0x20\n[  778.318220]  ? arch_stack_walk+0x82/0xf0\n[  778.319153]  ? secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb0/0xbb\n[  778.320399]  ? stack_trace_save+0x91/0xc0\n[  778.321362]  ? stack_trace_consume_entry+0x160/0x160\n[  778.322517]  ? lock_release+0x52e/0x760\n[  778.323444]  netdev_frame_hook+0x323/0x610 [openvswitch]\n[  778.324668]  ? ovs_netdev_get_vport+0xe0/0xe0 [openvswitch]\n[  778.325950]  __netif_receive_skb_core+0x771/0x2db0\n[  778.327067]  ? lock_downgrade+0x6e0/0x6f0\n[  778.328021]  ? lock_acquire+0x565/0x720\n[  778.328940]  ? generic_xdp_tx+0x4f0/0x4f0\n[  778.329902]  ? inet_gro_receive+0x2a7/0x10a0\n[  778.330914]  ? lock_downgrade+0x6f0/0x6f0\n[  778.331867]  ? udp4_gro_receive+0x4c4/0x13e0\n[  778.332876]  ? lock_release+0x52e/0x760\n[  778.333808]  ? dev_gro_receive+0xcc8/0x2380\n[  778.334810]  ? lock_downgrade+0x6f0/0x6f0\n[  778.335769]  __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x295/0x820\n[  778.336955]  ? process_backlog+0x780/0x780\n[  778.337941]  ? mlx5e_rep_tc_netdevice_event_unregister+0x20/0x20 [mlx5_core]\n[  778.339613]  ? seqcount_lockdep_reader_access.constprop.0+0xa7/0xc0\n[  778.341033]  ? kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x14/0x20\n[  778.342072]  netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x5f5/0xcb0\n[  778.343288]  ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x7a/0x90\n[  778.344234]  ? mlx5e_handle_rx_cqe_mpwrq+0x9e0/0x9e0 [mlx5_core]\n[  778.345676]  ? mlx5e_xmit_xdp_frame_mpwqe+0x14d0/0x14d0 [mlx5_core]\n[  778.347140]  ? __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x820/0x820\n[  778.348351]  ? mlx5e_post_rx_mpwqes+0xa6/0x25d0 [mlx5_core]\n[  778.349688]  ? napi_gro_flush+0x26c/0x3c0\n[  778.350641]  napi_complete_done+0x188/0x6b0\n[  778.351627]  mlx5e_napi_poll+0x373/0x1b80 [mlx5_core]\n[  778.352853]  __napi_poll+0x9f/0x510\n[  778.353704]  ? mlx5_flow_namespace_set_mode+0x260/0x260 [mlx5_core]\n[  778.355158]  net_rx_action+0x34c/0xa40\n[  778.356060]  ? napi_threaded_poll+0x3d0/0x3d0\n[  778.357083]  ? sched_clock_cpu+0x18/0x190\n[  778.358041]  ? __common_interrupt+0x8e/0x1a0\n[  778.359045]  __do_softirq+0x1ce/0x984\n[  778.359938]  __irq_exit_rcu+0x137/0x1d0\n[  778.360865]  irq_exit_rcu+0xa/0x20\n[  778.361708]  common_interrupt+0x80/0xa0\n[  778.362640]  \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n[  778.363212]  asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40\n[  778.364204] RIP: 0010:native_safe_halt+0xe/0x10\n[  778.365273] Code: 4f ff ff ff 4c 89 e7 e8 50 3f 40 fe e9 dc fe ff ff 48 89 df e8 43 3f 40 fe eb 90 cc e9 07 00 00 00 0f 00 2d 74 05 62 00 fb f4 \u003cc3\u003e 90 e9 07 00 00 00 0f 00 2d 64 05 62 00 f4 c3 cc cc 0f 1f 44 00\n[  778.369355] RSP: 0018:ffffffff84407e48 EFLAGS: 00000246\n[  778.370570] RAX\n---truncated---"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"038ebb1a713d114d54dbf14868a73181c0c92758","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac493452e937b8939eaf2d24cac51a4804b6c20e"},{"version":"038ebb1a713d114d54dbf14868a73181c0c92758","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86ab133b695ed7ba1f8786b12f4ca43137ad8c18"},{"version":"038ebb1a713d114d54dbf14868a73181c0c92758","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9453d45ecb6c2199d72e73c993e9d98677a2801b"},{"version":"7154bda4cfc1f41b339121475d2b0234141f3492","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.7.15","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"},{"version":"5.10.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.12.9","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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