Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 28, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025
ethernet:enic: Fix a use after free bug in enic_hard_start_xmit
CVE-2021-46998
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ethernet:enic: Fix a use after free bug in enic_hard_start_xmit
In enic_hard_start_xmit, it calls enic_queue_wq_skb(). Inside enic_queue_wq_skb, if some error happens, the skb will be freed by dev_kfree_skb(skb). But the freed skb is still used in skb_tx_timestamp(skb).
My patch makes enic_queue_wq_skb() return error and goto spin_unlock() incase of error. The solution is provided by Govind. See https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/30/961.
Affected products
90- osv-coords89 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Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/25a87b1f566b5eb2af2857a928f0e2310d900976mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/643001b47adc844ae33510c4bb93c236667008a3mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6892396ebf04ea2c021d80e10f4075e014cd7cc3mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7afdd6aba95c8a526038e7abe283eeac3e4320f1mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d90529392aaf498dafa95d212295d64b2cea4e24mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7f6f07774091a6ddd98500b85386c3c6afb30d3mitre
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