CVE-2021-47291

2024-05-2115:15:17

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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linux kernel

ipv6

vulnerability

fix

slab-out-of-bounds

self-tests

kasan

initialization

nvd

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

JSON

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: fix another slab-out-of-bounds in fib6_nh_flush_exceptions

While running the self-tests on a KASAN enabled kernel, I observed a
slab-out-of-bounds splat very similar to the one reported in
commit 821bbf79fe46 (“ipv6: Fix KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in
fib6_nh_flush_exceptions”).

We additionally need to take care of fib6_metrics initialization
failure when the caller provides an nh.

The fix is similar, explicitly free the route instead of calling
fib6_info_release on a half-initialized object.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.3–5.4.136

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.5.0–5.10.54

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.11.0–5.13.6

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.14.0≥

CNA Affected

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    "programFiles": [
      "net/ipv6/route.c"
    ],
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