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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2021-46992 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: avoid overflows in nft_hash_buckets() Number of buckets being stored in 32bit variables, we have to ensure that no overflows occur in nft_hash_buckets() syzbot injected a size == 0x4000000

[NVD] CVE-2021-46992 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: avoid overflows in nft_hash_buckets() Number of buckets being stored in 32bit variables, we have to ensure that no overflows occur in nft_hash_buckets() syzbot injected a size == 0x4000000

lownvdPublished 2024-02-28

CVE-2021-46992 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2024-02-28T09:15:37.833

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nftables: avoid overflows in nft_hash_buckets()

Number of buckets being stored in 32bit variables, we have to ensure that no overflows occur in nft_hash_buckets()

syzbot injected a size == 0x40000000 and reported:

UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in ./inclu

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46992