CVE-2021-46999

sctp: do asoc update earlier in sctp_sf_do_dupcook_a

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: February 28, 2024 at 08:13 AM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 09:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: do asoc update earlier in sctp_sf_do_dupcook_a There's a panic that occurs in a few of envs, the call trace is as below: [] general protection fault, ... 0x29acd70f1000a: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI [] RIP: 0010:sctp_ulpevent_notify_peer_addr_change+0x4b/0x1fa [sctp] [] sctp_assoc_control_transport+0x1b9/0x210 [sctp] [] sctp_do_8_2_transport_strike.isra.16+0x15c/0x220 [sctp] [] sctp_cmd_interpreter.isra.21+0x1231/0x1a10 [sctp] [] sctp_do_sm+0xc3/0x2a0 [sctp] [] sctp_generate_timeout_event+0x81/0xf0 [sctp] This is caused by a transport use-after-free issue. When processing a duplicate COOKIE-ECHO chunk in sctp_sf_do_dupcook_a(), both COOKIE-ACK and SHUTDOWN chunks are allocated with the transort from the new asoc. However, later in the sideeffect machine, the old asoc is used to send them out and old asoc's shutdown_last_sent_to is set to the transport that SHUTDOWN chunk attached to in sctp_cmd_setup_t2(), which actually belongs to the new asoc. After the new_asoc is freed and the old asoc T2 timeout, the old asoc's shutdown_last_sent_to that is already freed would be accessed in sctp_sf_t2_timer_expire(). Thanks Alexander and Jere for helping dig into this issue. To fix it, this patch is to do the asoc update first, then allocate the COOKIE-ACK and SHUTDOWN chunks with the 'updated' old asoc. This would make more sense, as a chunk from an asoc shouldn't be sent out with another asoc. We had fixed quite a few issues caused by this.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≥ 5.6.134.19.123 ≤ v < 4.19.1915.11 ≤ v < 5.11.225.12 ≤ v < 5.12.55.4.41 ≤ v < 5.4.1205.6.13 ≤ v < 5.75.7 ≤ v < 5.10.385.7 ≤ v < 5.11.225.7 ≤ v < 5.12.55.7 ≤ v < 5.13145cb2f7177d94bc54563ed26027e952ee0ae03c4.19.1235.4.415.6.135.7a204d577be70e0a0a6023cf1b9859c9ebffaeecda5ce8531ea508d270822b2bc6140c6198c8a2a7bdb8bf823e70f239372c62f13e4eb6f08a1665e8c
Vendor states this is fixed in 0bfd913c2121b3d553bfd52810fe6061d542d625 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 35b4f24415c854cd718ccdf38dbea6297f010aae (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 61b877bad9bb0d82b7d8841be50872557090a704 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b1b31948c0af44628e43353828453461bb74098f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d624f2991b977821375fbd56c91b0c91d456a697 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f01988ecf3654f805282dce2d3bb9afe68d2691e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.19.191 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.38 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.11.22 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.12.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.13 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.4.120 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.7 (unaffected)

References (6)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bfd913c2121b3d553bfd52810fe6061d542d625
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35b4f24415c854cd718ccdf38dbea6297f010aae
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61b877bad9bb0d82b7d8841be50872557090a704
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1b31948c0af44628e43353828453461bb74098f
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d624f2991b977821375fbd56c91b0c91d456a697
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f01988ecf3654f805282dce2d3bb9afe68d2691e

SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

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StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416

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