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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47243"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T14:19:42.309Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:46:54.221Z"
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-2021-47243"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47243.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47243"
title: "sch_cake: Fix out of bounds when parsing TCP options and header"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsch_cake: Fix out of bounds when parsing TCP options and header\n\nThe TCP option parser in cake qdisc (cake_get_tcpopt and\ncake_tcph_may_drop) could read one byte out of bounds. When the length\nis 1, the execution flow gets into the loop, reads one byte of the\nopcode, and if the opcode is neither TCPOPT_EOL nor TCPOPT_NOP, it reads\none more byte, which exceeds the length of 1.\n\nThis fix is inspired by commit 9609dad263f8 (\"ipv4: tcp_input: fix stack\nout of bounds when parsing TCP options.\").\n\nv2 changes:\n\nAdded doff validation in cake_get_tcphdr to avoid parsing garbage as TCP\nheader. Although it wasn't strictly an out-of-bounds access (memory was\nallocated), garbage values could be read where CAKE expected the TCP\nheader if doff was smaller than 5."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"595897ef118d6fe66690c4fc5b572028c9da95b7"},{"version":"8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4cefa061fc63f4d2dff5ab4083f43857cd7a2335"},{"version":"8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3b491dd593d582ceeb27aa617600712a6bd14246"},{"version":"8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3371392c60e2685af30bd4547badd880f5df2b3f"},{"version":"8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba91c49dedbde758ba0b72f57ac90b06ddf8e548"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19"},{"version":"4.19.196","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.128","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.12.13","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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