Vulnerability · Published Aug 29, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2021-4442tcp: add sanity tests to TCP_QUEUE_SEQ

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 34% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 66.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: add sanity tests to TCP_QUEUE_SEQ Qingyu Li reported a syzkaller bug where the repro changes RCV SEQ _after_ restoring data in the receive queue. mprotect(0x4aa000, 12288, PROT_READ) = 0 mmap(0x1ffff000, 4096, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x1ffff000 mmap(0x20000000, 16777216, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x20000000 mmap(0x21000000, 4096, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x21000000 socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 3 setsockopt(3, SOL_TCP, TCP_REPAIR, [1], 4) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(0), sin6_flowinfo=htonl(0), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::1", &sin6_addr), sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = 0 setsockopt(3, SOL_TCP, TCP_REPAIR_QUEUE, [1], 4) = 0 sendmsg(3, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="0x0000000000000003\0\0", iov_len=20}], msg_iovlen=1, msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 20 setsockopt(3, SOL_TCP, TCP_REPAIR, [0], 4) = 0 setsockopt(3, SOL_TCP, TCP_QUEUE_SEQ, [128], 4) = 0 recvfrom(3, NULL, 20, 0, NULL, NULL) = -1 ECONNRESET (Connection reset by peer) syslog shows: [ 111.205099] TCP recvmsg seq # bug 2: copied 80, seq 0, rcvnxt 80, fl 0 [ 111.207894] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 356 at net/ipv4/tcp.c:2343 tcp_recvmsg_locked+0x90e/0x29a0 This should not be allowed. TCP_QUEUE_SEQ should only be used when queues are empty. This patch fixes this case, and the tx path as well.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.10.24-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-4442
Debian:13linux5.10.24-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-4442
Debian:14linux5.10.24-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux ee9952831cfd0bbe834f4a26489d7dce74582e37 – before 319f460237fc2965a80aa9a055044e1da7b3692aee9952831cfd0bbe834f4a26489d7dce74582e37 – before 3bf899438c123c444f6b644a57784dfbb6b15ad6ee9952831cfd0bbe834f4a26489d7dce74582e37 – before 046f3c1c2ff450fb7ae53650e9a95e0074a61f3eee9952831cfd0bbe834f4a26489d7dce74582e37 – before 3b72d5a703842f582502d97906f17d6ee122dac2ee9952831cfd0bbe834f4a26489d7dce74582e37 – before 8811f4a9836e31c14ecdf79d9f3cb7c5d463265d
Linux Linux 3.5

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