> CVE-2021-46981 [MEDIUM]

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PUBLISHED
2024-02-28 09:15
MODIFIED
2024-12-06 15:59
CVSS_SCORE V3
5.5
EPSS (Prob. Exploit)
0.25%
Top 83.6%
DATA SOURCES:
NVD 🔗 2025-10-18 CVE PROJECT 🔗 2026-01-19 FIRST EPSS 🔗 2026-11-15 OSV 🔗 2026-11-01

> DESCRIPTION

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nbd: Fix NULL pointer in flush_workqueue Open /dev/nbdX first, the config_refs will be 1 and the pointers in nbd_device are still null. Disconnect /dev/nbdX, then reference a null recv_workq. The protection by config_refs in nbd_genl_disconnect is useless. [ 656.366194] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020 [ 656.368943] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode [ 656.369844] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page [ 656.370717] PGD 10cc87067 P4D 10cc87067 PUD 1074b4067 PMD 0 [ 656.371693] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP [ 656.372242] CPU: 5 PID: 7977 Comm: nbd-client Not tainted 5.11.0-rc5-00040-g76c057c84d28 #1 [ 656.373661] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20190727_073836-buildvm-ppc64le-16.ppc.fedoraproject.org-3.fc31 04/01/2014 [ 656.375904] RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x29/0x60 [ 656.376627] Code: 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 fd 48 83 05 6f d7 fe 08 01 e8 7a c3 ff ff 48 83 05 6a d7 fe 08 01 31 c0 65 48 8b 14 25 00 6d 01 00 <f0> 48 0f b1 55 d [ 656.378934] RSP: 0018:ffffc900005eb9b0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 656.379350] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 656.379915] RDX: ffff888104cf2600 RSI: ffffffffaae8f452 RDI: 0000000000000020 [ 656.380473] RBP: 0000000000000020 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88813bd6b318 [ 656.381039] R10: 00000000000000c7 R11: fefefefefefefeff R12: ffff888102710b40 [ 656.381599] R13: ffffc900005eb9e0 R14: ffffffffb2930680 R15: ffff88810770ef00 [ 656.382166] FS: 00007fdf117ebb40(0000) GS:ffff88813bd40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 656.382806] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 656.383261] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 0000000100c84000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 656.383819] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 656.384370] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 656.384927] Call Trace: [ 656.385111] flush_workqueue+0x92/0x6c0 [ 656.385395] nbd_disconnect_and_put+0x81/0xd0 [ 656.385716] nbd_genl_disconnect+0x125/0x2a0 [ 656.386034] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x102/0x1b0 [ 656.386422] genl_rcv_msg+0xfc/0x2b0 [ 656.386685] ? nbd_ioctl+0x490/0x490 [ 656.386954] ? genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x1b0/0x1b0 [ 656.387354] netlink_rcv_skb+0x62/0x180 [ 656.387638] genl_rcv+0x34/0x60 [ 656.387874] netlink_unicast+0x26d/0x590 [ 656.388162] netlink_sendmsg+0x398/0x6c0 [ 656.388451] ? netlink_rcv_skb+0x180/0x180 [ 656.388750] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1da/0x320 [ 656.389038] ? ____sys_recvmsg+0x130/0x220 [ 656.389334] ___sys_sendmsg+0x8e/0xf0 [ 656.389605] ? ___sys_recvmsg+0xa2/0xf0 [ 656.389889] ? handle_mm_fault+0x1671/0x21d0 [ 656.390201] __sys_sendmsg+0x6d/0xe0 [ 656.390464] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x23/0x30 [ 656.390751] do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70 [ 656.391017] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 To fix it, just add if (nbd->recv_workq) to nbd_disconnect_and_put().

> AFFECTED_PRODUCTS

Linux - Linux Kernel
>= 5.4 < 5.4.120
Linux - Linux Kernel
>= 5.5 < 5.10.38
Linux - Linux Kernel
>= 5.11 < 5.11.22
Linux - Linux Kernel
>= 5.12 < 5.12.5
Linux - Linux Kernel
Version: 5.13

> CVSS V3 METRICS

CVSS_VECTOR
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

> MÉTRIQUES CVSS DÉTAILLÉES

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Métrique Valeur Interprétation
AV (Vecteur d'Attaque)
Attack Vector
Local (L)
Exploit nécessite un accès local au système
AC (Complexité d'Attaque)
Attack Complexity
Low (L)
Peu de conditions requises pour exploiter
PR (Privilèges Requis)
Privileges Required
Low (L)
Authentifié avec compte utilisateur basique
UI (Interaction Utilisateur)
User Interaction
None (N)
Aucune interaction utilisateur nécessaire
S (Périmètre)
Scope
Unchanged (U)
Impact reste dans le périmètre du composant compromis
C (Impact Confidentialité)
Confidentiality Impact
None (N)
Aucune divulgation d'informations
I (Impact Intégrité)
Integrity Impact
None (N)
Aucune modification de données possible
A (Impact Disponibilité)
Availability Impact
High (H)
Interruption totale du service possible

> RÉSUMÉ DES IMPACTS

Confidentialité
None
Aucune divulgation d'informations
Intégrité
None
Aucune modification de données possible
Disponibilité
High
Interruption totale du service possible

> OSV (GOOGLE OPEN SOURCE VULNERABILITIES)

AFFECTED PACKAGES:
Unknown / Unknown

> HISTORIQUE DES MODIFICATIONS

Première apparition
28/02/2024 09:15
Source: NVD
📊 ENRICHISSEMENT 18/10/2025 14:31
CVEPROJECT
Champ modifié: CVE Project
Ancienne valeur:
Non
Nouvelle valeur:
Oui
Total des modifications: 1 Dernière mise à jour: 1 year ago
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