{"id":"CVE-2021-46936","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: fix use-after-free in tw_timer_handler\n\nA real world panic issue was found as follow in Linux 5.4.\n\n    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffde49a863de28\n    PGD 7e6fe62067 P4D 7e6fe62067 PUD 7e6fe63067 PMD f51e064067 PTE 0\n    RIP: 0010:tw_timer_handler+0x20/0x40\n    Call Trace:\n     \u003cIRQ\u003e\n     call_timer_fn+0x2b/0x120\n     run_timer_softirq+0x1ef/0x450\n     __do_softirq+0x10d/0x2b8\n     irq_exit+0xc7/0xd0\n     smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x68/0x120\n     apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20\n\nThis issue was also reported since 2017 in the thread [1],\nunfortunately, the issue was still can be reproduced after fixing\nDCCP.\n\nThe ipv4_mib_exit_net is called before tcp_sk_exit_batch when a net\nnamespace is destroyed since tcp_sk_ops is registered befrore\nipv4_mib_ops, which means tcp_sk_ops is in the front of ipv4_mib_ops\nin the list of pernet_list. There will be a use-after-free on\nnet-\u003emib.net_statistics in tw_timer_handler after ipv4_mib_exit_net\nif there are some inflight time-wait timers.\n\nThis bug is not introduced by commit f2bf415cfed7 (\"mib: add net to\nNET_ADD_STATS_BH\") since the net_statistics is a global variable\ninstead of dynamic allocation and freeing. Actually, commit\n61a7e26028b9 (\"mib: put net statistics on struct net\") introduces\nthe bug since it put net statistics on struct net and free it when\nnet namespace is destroyed.\n\nMoving init_ipv4_mibs() to the front of tcp_init() to fix this bug\nand replace pr_crit() with panic() since continuing is meaningless\nwhen init_ipv4_mibs() fails.\n\n[1] https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller/c/p1tn-_Kc6l4/m/smuL_FMAAgAJ?pli=1","modified":"2026-03-13T05:19:21.728566Z","published":"2024-02-27T10:15:08.017Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2024:1320-1","SUSE-SU-2024:1321-1","SUSE-SU-2024:1466-1","SUSE-SU-2024:1480-1","SUSE-SU-2024:1490-1","SUSE-SU-2024:4100-1","SUSE-SU-2025:0034-1"],"references":[{"type":"FIX","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2386e81a1d277f540e1285565c9d41d531bb69d4"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c2fe20ad37ff56070ae0acb34152333976929b4"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8e1944b44f94f5c5f530e434c5eaee787254566"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e22e45fc9e41bf9fcc1e92cfb78eb92786728ef0"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e73164e89d1be561228a4534e1091369ee4ba41a"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe5838c22b986c1190f1dce9aa09bf6a491c1a69"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08eacbd141e2495d2fcdde84358a06c4f95cbb13"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15579e1301f856ad9385d720c9267c11032a5022"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"2.6.27"},{"fixed":"4.4.298"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"4.5.0"},{"fixed":"4.9.296"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"4.10.0"},{"fixed":"4.14.261"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.224"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.170"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.90"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.13"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-46936.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}