ipv6: Fix KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fib6_nh_flush_exceptions

published 2024-03-15 2 y ago modified 2026-08-05 3 mo ago also EUVD-2021-33774

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
public exploits: 0; none known

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

Reported by syzbot: HEAD commit: 90c911ad Merge tag 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm.. git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=123aa35098fd3c000eb7 compiler: Debian clang version 11.0.1-2

================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in fib6_nh_get_excptn_bucket net/ipv6/route.c:1604 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in fib6_nh_flush_exceptions+0xbd/0x360 net/ipv6/route.c:1732 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880145c78f8 by task syz-executor.4/17760

CPU: 0 PID: 17760 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc8-syzkaller #0 Call Trace: <IRQ> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:79 [inline] dump_stack+0x202/0x31e lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description+0x5f/0x3b0 mm/kasan/report.c:232 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:399 [inline] kasan_report+0x15c/0x200 mm/kasan/report.c:416 fib6_nh_get_excptn_bucket net/ipv6/route.c:1604 [inline] fib6_nh_flush_exceptions+0xbd/0x360 net/ipv6/route.c:1732 fib6_nh_release+0x9a/0x430 net/ipv6/route.c:3536 fib6_info_destroy_rcu+0xcb/0x1c0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:174 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2559 [inline] rcu_core+0x8f6/0x1450 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2794 __do_softirq+0x372/0x7a6 kernel/softirq.c:345 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:221 [inline] __irq_exit_rcu+0x22c/0x260 kernel/softirq.c:422 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:434 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x91/0xb0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1100 </IRQ> asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:632 RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x1f6/0x720 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5515 Code: f6 84 24 a1 00 00 00 02 0f 85 8d 02 00 00 f7 c3 00 02 00 00 49 bd 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 40 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 44 3d 00 00 00 00 00 4b c7 44 3d 09 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 3d RSP: 0018:ffffc90009e06560 EFLAGS: 00000206 RAX: 1ffff920013c0cc0 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: dffffc0000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffffc90009e066e0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1f992b1 R10: fffffbfff1f992b1 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 1ffff920013c0cb4 rcu_lock_acquire+0x2a/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:267 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:656 [inline] ext4_get_group_info+0xea/0x340 fs/ext4/ext4.h:3231 ext4_mb_prefetch+0x123/0x5d0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2212 ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x8a5/0x28f0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2379 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0xc6e/0x24f0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:4982 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x2be3/0x7210 fs/ext4/extents.c:4238 ext4_map_blocks+0xab3/0x1cb0 fs/ext4/inode.c:638 ext4_getblk+0x187/0x6c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:848 ext4_bread+0x2a/0x1c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:900 ext4_append+0x1a4/0x360 fs/ext4/namei.c:67 ext4_init_new_dir+0x337/0xa10 fs/ext4/namei.c:2768 ext4_mkdir+0x4b8/0xc00 fs/ext4/namei.c:2814 vfs_mkdir+0x45b/0x640 fs/namei.c:3819 ovl_do_mkdir fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h:161 [inline] ovl_mkdir_real+0x53/0x1a0 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:146 ovl_create_real+0x280/0x490 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:193 ovl_workdir_create+0x425/0x600 fs/overlayfs/super.c:788 ovl_make_workdir+0xed/0x1140 fs/overlayfs/super.c:1355 ovl_get_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:1492 [inline] ovl_fill_super+0x39ee/0x5370 fs/overlayfs/super.c:2035 mount_nodev+0x52/0xe0 fs/super.c:1413 legacy_get_tree+0xea/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:592 vfs_get_tree+0x86/0x270 fs/super.c:1497 do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:2903 [inline] path_mount+0x196f/0x2be0 fs/namespace.c:3233 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3246 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3454 [inline] __se_sys_mount+0x2f9/0x3b0 fs/namespace.c:3431 do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x4665f9 Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 ---truncated---

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 3 links 4

Linux Linux 5.4.125, 5.10.43, 5.12.10, 5.13

debian ubuntu suse

linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.10.46-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47126

linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-81.91
linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1055.58
linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1051.55
linux-kvm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1045.47
linux-azure Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1056.58
linux-gkeop Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1022.23
linux-raspi Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1042.46
linux-oracle Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1053.57

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47126

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS, Enterprise Storage 7.1 5.3.18-150300.59.170.1
kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.170.1
kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.170.1
kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.2 +5 more 5.3.18-150300.59.170.1
kernel-preempt SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.170.1
kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.170.1
kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.2 +3 more 5.3.18-150300.59.170.1.150300.18.100.1
kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP2-LTSS, SLE Live Patching 15 SP2 +2 more 5.3.18-150200.24.200.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:2948-1 SUSE-SU-2024:2923-1 SUSE-SU-2024:2893-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-47126 updated 2026-11-05 cvss 5.5

kernel: ipv6: Fix KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fib6_nh_flush_exceptions

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
affected: workaround, no fix planned “Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.”
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-03-18)

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADP	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

Technology feeds

Linux kernel rss critical rss

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2021-47126
NVD CVE-2021-47126

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Summary