CVE-2021-47496
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2021
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
net/tls: Fix flipped sign in tls_err_abort() calls
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/tls: Fix flipped sign in tls_err_abort() calls sk->sk_err appears to expect a positive value, a convention that ktls doesn't always follow and that leads to memory corruption in other code. For instance, [kworker] tls_encrypt_done(..., err=<negative error from crypto request>) tls_err_abort(.., err) sk->sk_err = err; [task] splice_from_pipe_feed ... tls_sw_do_sendpage if (sk->sk_err) { ret = -sk->sk_err; // ret is positive splice_from_pipe_feed (continued) ret = actor(...) // ret is still positive and interpreted as bytes // written, resulting in underflow of buf->len and // sd->len, leading to huge buf->offset and bogus // addresses computed in later calls to actor() Fix all tls_err_abort() callers to pass a negative error code consistently and centralize the error-prone sign flip there, throwing in a warning to catch future misuse and uninlining the function so it really does only warn once.
Scoped product and version facts
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.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| c46234ebb4d1eee5e09819f49169e51cfc6eb909 | affected | git | e0cfd5159f314d6b304d030363650b06a2299cbb | Unavailable | None listed |
| c46234ebb4d1eee5e09819f49169e51cfc6eb909 | affected | git | f3dec7e7ace38224f82cf83f0049159d067c2e19 | Unavailable | None listed |
| c46234ebb4d1eee5e09819f49169e51cfc6eb909 | affected | git | e41473543f75f7dbc5d605007e6f883f1bd13b9a | Unavailable | None listed |
| c46234ebb4d1eee5e09819f49169e51cfc6eb909 | affected | git | da353fac65fede6b8b4cfe207f0d9408e3121105 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.17 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 4.17 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.4.157 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.4.* | None listed |
| 5.10.77 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.14.16 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.14.* | None listed |
| 5.15 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |