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Linux Linux — net: validate lwtstate->data before returning from skb_tunnel_info()
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U H N H 7.1 .0025 16.4 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 61adedf3e3f1d3f032c5a6a299978d91eff6d555 – —
Linux 4.3 – 4.4.277
TIMELINE
May 21 Reserved by Linux
May 21 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2021-47309 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 7.1 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: validate lwtstate->data before returning from skb_tunnel_info()
skb_tunnel_info() returns pointer of lwtstate->data as ip_tunnel_info
type without validation. lwtstate->data can have various types such as
mpls_iptunnel_encap, etc and these are not compatible.
So skb_tunnel_info() should validate before returning that pointer.
Splat looks like:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in vxlan_get_route+0x418/0x4b0 [vxlan]
Read of size 2 at addr ffff888106ec2698 by task ping/811
CPU: 1 PID: 811 Comm: ping Not tainted 5.13.0+ #1195
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x56/0x7b
print_address_description.constprop.8.cold.13+0x13/0x2ee
? vxlan_get_route+0x418/0x4b0 [vxlan]
? vxlan_get_route+0x418/0x4b0 [vxlan]
kasan_report.cold.14+0x83/0xdf
? vxlan_get_route+0x418/0x4b0 [vxlan]
vxlan_get_route+0x418/0x4b0 [vxlan]
[ ... ]
vxlan_xmit_one+0x148b/0x32b0 [vxlan]
[ ... ]
vxlan_xmit+0x25c5/0x4780 [vxlan]
[ ... ]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x1ae/0x6e0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x1f39/0x31a0
[ ... ]
neigh_xmit+0x2f9/0x940
mpls_xmit+0x911/0x1600 [mpls_iptunnel]
lwtunnel_xmit+0x18f/0x450
ip_finish_output2+0x867/0x2040
[ ... ]
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| May 21, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| May 21, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2021-47309 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 7.1 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 61adedf3e3f1d3f032c5a6a299978d91eff6d555 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 4.3 | 4.4.277 |
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