{
  "cveId": "CVE-2021-46955",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-46955",
  "summary": "CVE-2021-46955 is fixed in linux on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46955, released February 27, 2024. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.",
  "title": "linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  openvswitch: fix stack OOB read while fragmentin...",
  "description": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  openvswitch: fix stack OOB read while fragmenting IPv4 packets  running openvswitch on kernels built with KASAN, it\u0027s possible to see the following splat while testing fragmentation of IPv4 packets:   BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in ip_do_fragment\u002B0x1b03/0x1f60  Read of size 1 at addr ffff888112fc713c by task handler2/1367   CPU: 0 PID: 1367 Comm: handler2 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc6\u002B #418  Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.1-4.module\u002Bel8.1.0\u002B4066\u002B0f1aadab 04/01/2014  Call Trace:   dump_stack\u002B0x92/0xc1   print_address_description.constprop.7\u002B0x1a/0x150   kasan_report.cold.13\u002B0x7f/0x111   ip_do_fragment\u002B0x1b03/0x1f60   ovs_fragment\u002B0x5bf/0x840 [openvswitch]   do_execute_actions\u002B0x1bd5/0x2400 [openvswitch]   ovs_execute_actions\u002B0xc8/0x3d0 [openvswitch]   ovs_packet_cmd_execute\u002B0xa39/0x1150 [openvswitch]   genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15\u002B0x227/0x2d0   genl_rcv_msg\u002B0x287/0x490   netlink_rcv_skb\u002B0x120/0x380   genl_rcv\u002B0x24/0x40   netlink_unicast\u002B0x439/0x630   netlink_sendmsg\u002B0x719/0xbf0   sock_sendmsg\u002B0xe2/0x110   ____sys_sendmsg\u002B0x5ba/0x890   ___sys_sendmsg\u002B0xe9/0x160   __sys_sendmsg\u002B0xd3/0x170   do_syscall_64\u002B0x33/0x40   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe\u002B0x44/0xae  RIP: 0033:0x7f957079db07  Code: c3 66 90 41 54 41 89 d4 55 48 89 f5 53 89 fb 48 83 ec 10 e8 eb ec ff ff 44 89 e2 48 89 ee 89 df 41 89 c0 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 \u003C48\u003E 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 35 44 89 c7 48 89 44 24 08 e8 24 ed ff ff 48  RSP: 002b:00007f956ce35a50 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e  RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000019 RCX: 00007f957079db07  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007f956ce35ae0 RDI: 0000000000000019  RBP: 00007f956ce35ae0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007f9558006730  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000000000000000  R13: 00007f956ce37308 R14: 00007f956ce35f80 R15: 00007f956ce35ae0   The buggy address belongs to the page:  page:00000000af2a1d93 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x112fc7  flags: 0x17ffffc0000000()  raw: 0017ffffc0000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000  raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000  page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected   addr ffff888112fc713c is located in stack of task handler2/1367 at offset 180 in frame:   ovs_fragment\u002B0x0/0x840 [openvswitch]   this frame has 2 objects:   [32, 144) \u0027ovs_dst\u0027   [192, 424) \u0027ovs_rt\u0027   Memory state around the buggy address:   ffff888112fc7000: f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ffff888112fc7080: 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  \u003Effff888112fc7100: 00 00 00 f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                                          ^   ffff888112fc7180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ffff888112fc7200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  for IPv4 packets, ovs_fragment() uses a temporary struct dst_entry. Then, in the following call graph:    ip_do_fragment()     ip_skb_dst_mtu()       ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward()         ip_mtu_locked()  the pointer to struct dst_entry is used as pointer to struct rtable: this turns the access to struct members like rt_mtu_locked into an OOB read in the stack. Fix this changing the temporary variable used for IPv4 packets in ovs_fragment(), similarly to what is done for IPv6 few lines below.",
  "published": "2024-02-27T19:04:06Z",
  "severity": "high",
  "cvss": 7.1,
  "cvssVector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H",
  "epss": 0.00746,
  "epssPercentile": 0.55077,
  "priority": "High",
  "priorityTier": 3,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
  "fixes": [
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "linux",
      "release": "Debian 12.15 (bookworm)",
      "fixedVersion": "5.10.38-1",
      "fix": "DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46955",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/debian-cve-2021-46955",
      "released": "2024-02-27T19:04:06Z"
    },
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "linux",
      "release": "Debian 13.5 (trixie)",
      "fixedVersion": "5.10.38-1",
      "fix": "DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46955",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/debian-cve-2021-46955",
      "released": "2024-02-27T19:04:06Z"
    },
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "linux",
      "release": "Debian 14",
      "fixedVersion": "5.10.38-1",
      "fix": "DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46955",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/debian-cve-2021-46955",
      "released": "2024-02-27T19:04:06Z"
    }
  ],
  "noFixYet": [],
  "dataAsOf": "2026-11-09T07:25:28Z",
  "attribution": {
    "text": "Data: Patchblox Patch Radar",
    "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/patch-radar",
    "terms": "https://patchblox.com/security/patch-radar/use-the-data"
  }
}