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CVE-2021-47496

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CVE-2021-47496

Published: May 22, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/tls: Fix flipped sign in tls_err_abort() calls sk->sk_err appears to expect a positive value, a convention that ktls doesn't always follow and that leads to memory corruption in other code. For instance, [kworker] tls_encrypt_done(..., err=<negative error from crypto request>) tls_err_abort(.., err) sk->sk_err = err; [task] splice_from_pipe_feed ... tls_sw_do_sendpage if (sk->sk_err) { ret = -sk->sk_err; // ret is positive splice_from_pipe_feed (continued) ret = actor(...) // ret is still positive and interpreted as bytes // written, resulting in underflow of buf->len and // sd->len, leading to huge buf->offset and bogus // addresses computed in later calls to actor() Fix all tls_err_abort() callers to pass a negative error code consistently and centralize the error-prone sign flip there, throwing in a warning to catch future misuse and uninlining the function so it really does only warn once.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
c46234ebb4d1eee5e09819f49169e51cfc6eb909 - < e0cfd5159f314d6b304d030363650b06a2299cbb
affected
c46234ebb4d1eee5e09819f49169e51cfc6eb909 - < f3dec7e7ace38224f82cf83f0049159d067c2e19
affected
c46234ebb4d1eee5e09819f49169e51cfc6eb909 - < e41473543f75f7dbc5d605007e6f883f1bd13b9a
affected
c46234ebb4d1eee5e09819f49169e51cfc6eb909 - < da353fac65fede6b8b4cfe207f0d9408e3121105

Linux

Linux

affected
4.17
unaffected
0 - < 4.17
unaffected
5.4.157 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.77 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.14.16 - <= 5.14.*

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