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FKIE_CVE-2021-46952

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-02-27 19:04 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:15
Severity
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS: fs_context: validate UDP retrans to prevent shift out-of-bounds Fix shift out-of-bounds in xprt_calc_majortimeo(). This is caused by a garbage timeout (retrans) mount option being passed to nfs mount, in this case from syzkaller. If the protocol is XPRT_TRANSPORT_UDP, then 'retrans' is a shift value for a 64-bit long integer, so 'retrans' cannot be >= 64. If it is >= 64, fail the mount and return an error.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f3380121d49e829fb73ba86240c181bc32ad897Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d0163821c035040a46d816a42c0780f0f0a30a8Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96fa26b74cdcf9f5c98996bf36bec9fb5b19ffe2Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c09f11ef35955785f92369e25819bf0629df2e59Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f3380121d49e829fb73ba86240c181bc32ad897Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d0163821c035040a46d816a42c0780f0f0a30a8Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96fa26b74cdcf9f5c98996bf36bec9fb5b19ffe2Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c09f11ef35955785f92369e25819bf0629df2e59Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
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