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CVE-2021-46998

ethernet:enic: Fix a use after free bug in enic_hard_start_xmit PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected fb7516d42478ebc8e2f00efb76ef96f7b68fd8d3 before 25a87b1f566b5eb2af2857a928f0e2310d900976; affected fb7516d42478ebc8e2f00efb76ef96f7b68fd8d3 before f7f6f07774091a6ddd98500b85386c3c6afb30d3; affected fb7516d42478ebc8e2f00efb76ef96f7b68fd8d3 before 7afdd6aba95c8a526038e7abe283eeac3e4320f1; affected fb7516d42478ebc8e2f00efb76ef96f7b68fd8d3 before 6892396ebf04ea2c021d80e10f4075e014cd7cc3; affected fb7516d42478ebc8e2f00efb76ef96f7b68fd8d3 before d90529392aaf498dafa95d212295d64b2cea4e24; affected fb7516d42478ebc8e2f00efb76ef96f7b68fd8d3 before 643001b47adc844ae33510c4bb93c236667008a3
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.16; unaffected 0 before 4.16; unaffected 4.19.191 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.120 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.38 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.11.22 through 5.11.*; unaffected 5.12.5 through 5.12.*; unaffected 5.13 through *

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