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CVE-2021-46992

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CVE-2021-46992

Published: Feb 28, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: avoid overflows in nft_hash_buckets() Number of buckets being stored in 32bit variables, we have to ensure that no overflows occur in nft_hash_buckets() syzbot injected a size == 0x40000000 and reported: UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in ./include/linux/log2.h:57:13 shift exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'long unsigned int' CPU: 1 PID: 29539 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc7-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:79 [inline] dump_stack+0x141/0x1d7 lib/dump_stack.c:120 ubsan_epilogue+0xb/0x5a lib/ubsan.c:148 __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds.cold+0xb1/0x181 lib/ubsan.c:327 __roundup_pow_of_two include/linux/log2.h:57 [inline] nft_hash_buckets net/netfilter/nft_set_hash.c:411 [inline] nft_hash_estimate.cold+0x19/0x1e net/netfilter/nft_set_hash.c:652 nft_select_set_ops net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:3586 [inline] nf_tables_newset+0xe62/0x3110 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:4322 nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0xa09/0x24b0 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:488 nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:612 [inline] nfnetlink_rcv+0x3af/0x420 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:630 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1312 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x533/0x7d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338 netlink_sendmsg+0x856/0xd90 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1927 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:654 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:674 ____sys_sendmsg+0x6e8/0x810 net/socket.c:2350 ___sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x170 net/socket.c:2404 __sys_sendmsg+0xe5/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2433 do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
0ed6389c483dc77cdbdd48de0ca7ce41723dd667 - < 2824cafc6a93792d9ad85939c499161214d84c4b
affected
0ed6389c483dc77cdbdd48de0ca7ce41723dd667 - < efcd730ddd6f25578bd31bfe703e593e2421d708
affected
0ed6389c483dc77cdbdd48de0ca7ce41723dd667 - < c77e2ef18167ad334e27610ced9a7f6af5ec1787
affected
0ed6389c483dc77cdbdd48de0ca7ce41723dd667 - < 72b49dd116ca00a46a11d5a4d8d7987f05ed9cd7
affected
0ed6389c483dc77cdbdd48de0ca7ce41723dd667 - < 1e8ab479cfbe5751efccedb95afb9b112a5ba475

+2 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
4.9
unaffected
0 - < 4.9
unaffected
4.14.233 - <= 4.14.*
unaffected
4.19.191 - <= 4.19.*
unaffected
5.4.120 - <= 5.4.*

+4 more versions

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