CVE-2021-46981 (GCVE-0-2021-46981)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-28 08:13 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:18
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
nbd: Fix NULL pointer in flush_workqueue
Summary
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().
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-02-28 19:55 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
e9e006f5fcf2bab59149cb38a48a4817c1b538b4 , < 1c4962df938891af9ab4775f5224ef8601764107
(git)
Affected: e9e006f5fcf2bab59149cb38a48a4817c1b538b4 , < cde4b55cfb24522dcbba80bbdb0c082303e76c43 (git) Affected: e9e006f5fcf2bab59149cb38a48a4817c1b538b4 , < b31d237796fd618379ec8e0f4de3370b5e4aeee7 (git) Affected: e9e006f5fcf2bab59149cb38a48a4817c1b538b4 , < 54b78ba7e96e5fe1edb8054e375d31a6c0dc60dc (git) Affected: e9e006f5fcf2bab59149cb38a48a4817c1b538b4 , < 79ebe9110fa458d58f1fceb078e2068d7ad37390 (git) Affected: 0b584bf573ae59021069c056c22d65d5721910cb (git) Affected: 9f0f39c92e4f50189155dfb13bb5524372e40eba (git) Affected: 92ec11cccb7fc14331e000ab2337f60aa433433e (git) Affected: 4.14.149 , < 4.15 (semver) Affected: 4.19.79 , < 4.20 (semver) Affected: 5.3.6 , < 5.4 (semver) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.4 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.120 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.38 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.11.22 , ≤ 5.11.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.12.5 , ≤ 5.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnbd: Fix NULL pointer in flush_workqueue\n\nOpen /dev/nbdX first, the config_refs will be 1 and\nthe pointers in nbd_device are still null. Disconnect\n/dev/nbdX, then reference a null recv_workq. The\nprotection by config_refs in nbd_genl_disconnect is useless.\n\n[ 656.366194] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020\n[ 656.368943] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode\n[ 656.369844] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page\n[ 656.370717] PGD 10cc87067 P4D 10cc87067 PUD 1074b4067 PMD 0\n[ 656.371693] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP\n[ 656.372242] CPU: 5 PID: 7977 Comm: nbd-client Not tainted 5.11.0-rc5-00040-g76c057c84d28 #1\n[ 656.373661] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20190727_073836-buildvm-ppc64le-16.ppc.fedoraproject.org-3.fc31 04/01/2014\n[ 656.375904] RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x29/0x60\n[ 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 \u003cf0\u003e 48 0f b1 55 d\n[ 656.378934] RSP: 0018:ffffc900005eb9b0 EFLAGS: 00010246\n[ 656.379350] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000\n[ 656.379915] RDX: ffff888104cf2600 RSI: ffffffffaae8f452 RDI: 0000000000000020\n[ 656.380473] RBP: 0000000000000020 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88813bd6b318\n[ 656.381039] R10: 00000000000000c7 R11: fefefefefefefeff R12: ffff888102710b40\n[ 656.381599] R13: ffffc900005eb9e0 R14: ffffffffb2930680 R15: ffff88810770ef00\n[ 656.382166] FS: 00007fdf117ebb40(0000) GS:ffff88813bd40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[ 656.382806] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[ 656.383261] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 0000000100c84000 CR4: 00000000000006e0\n[ 656.383819] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n[ 656.384370] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n[ 656.384927] Call Trace:\n[ 656.385111] flush_workqueue+0x92/0x6c0\n[ 656.385395] nbd_disconnect_and_put+0x81/0xd0\n[ 656.385716] nbd_genl_disconnect+0x125/0x2a0\n[ 656.386034] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x102/0x1b0\n[ 656.386422] genl_rcv_msg+0xfc/0x2b0\n[ 656.386685] ? nbd_ioctl+0x490/0x490\n[ 656.386954] ? genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x1b0/0x1b0\n[ 656.387354] netlink_rcv_skb+0x62/0x180\n[ 656.387638] genl_rcv+0x34/0x60\n[ 656.387874] netlink_unicast+0x26d/0x590\n[ 656.388162] netlink_sendmsg+0x398/0x6c0\n[ 656.388451] ? netlink_rcv_skb+0x180/0x180\n[ 656.388750] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1da/0x320\n[ 656.389038] ? ____sys_recvmsg+0x130/0x220\n[ 656.389334] ___sys_sendmsg+0x8e/0xf0\n[ 656.389605] ? ___sys_recvmsg+0xa2/0xf0\n[ 656.389889] ? handle_mm_fault+0x1671/0x21d0\n[ 656.390201] __sys_sendmsg+0x6d/0xe0\n[ 656.390464] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x23/0x30\n[ 656.390751] do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70\n[ 656.391017] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9\n\nTo fix it, just add if (nbd-\u003erecv_workq) to nbd_disconnect_and_put()."
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnbd: Fix NULL pointer in flush_workqueue\n\nOpen /dev/nbdX first, the config_refs will be 1 and\nthe pointers in nbd_device are still null. Disconnect\n/dev/nbdX, then reference a null recv_workq. The\nprotection by config_refs in nbd_genl_disconnect is useless.\n\n[ 656.366194] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020\n[ 656.368943] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode\n[ 656.369844] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page\n[ 656.370717] PGD 10cc87067 P4D 10cc87067 PUD 1074b4067 PMD 0\n[ 656.371693] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP\n[ 656.372242] CPU: 5 PID: 7977 Comm: nbd-client Not tainted 5.11.0-rc5-00040-g76c057c84d28 #1\n[ 656.373661] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20190727_073836-buildvm-ppc64le-16.ppc.fedoraproject.org-3.fc31 04/01/2014\n[ 656.375904] RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x29/0x60\n[ 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 \u003cf0\u003e 48 0f b1 55 d\n[ 656.378934] RSP: 0018:ffffc900005eb9b0 EFLAGS: 00010246\n[ 656.379350] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000\n[ 656.379915] RDX: ffff888104cf2600 RSI: ffffffffaae8f452 RDI: 0000000000000020\n[ 656.380473] RBP: 0000000000000020 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88813bd6b318\n[ 656.381039] R10: 00000000000000c7 R11: fefefefefefefeff R12: ffff888102710b40\n[ 656.381599] R13: ffffc900005eb9e0 R14: ffffffffb2930680 R15: ffff88810770ef00\n[ 656.382166] FS: 00007fdf117ebb40(0000) GS:ffff88813bd40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[ 656.382806] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[ 656.383261] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 0000000100c84000 CR4: 00000000000006e0\n[ 656.383819] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n[ 656.384370] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n[ 656.384927] Call Trace:\n[ 656.385111] flush_workqueue+0x92/0x6c0\n[ 656.385395] nbd_disconnect_and_put+0x81/0xd0\n[ 656.385716] nbd_genl_disconnect+0x125/0x2a0\n[ 656.386034] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x102/0x1b0\n[ 656.386422] genl_rcv_msg+0xfc/0x2b0\n[ 656.386685] ? nbd_ioctl+0x490/0x490\n[ 656.386954] ? genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x1b0/0x1b0\n[ 656.387354] netlink_rcv_skb+0x62/0x180\n[ 656.387638] genl_rcv+0x34/0x60\n[ 656.387874] netlink_unicast+0x26d/0x590\n[ 656.388162] netlink_sendmsg+0x398/0x6c0\n[ 656.388451] ? netlink_rcv_skb+0x180/0x180\n[ 656.388750] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1da/0x320\n[ 656.389038] ? ____sys_recvmsg+0x130/0x220\n[ 656.389334] ___sys_sendmsg+0x8e/0xf0\n[ 656.389605] ? ___sys_recvmsg+0xa2/0xf0\n[ 656.389889] ? handle_mm_fault+0x1671/0x21d0\n[ 656.390201] __sys_sendmsg+0x6d/0xe0\n[ 656.390464] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x23/0x30\n[ 656.390751] do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70\n[ 656.391017] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9\n\nTo fix it, just add if (nbd-\u003erecv_workq) to nbd_disconnect_and_put()."
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- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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