Security Advisory

CVE-2021-46998

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-02-28 08:13:21
Last updated 2026-05-11 13:45:58
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethernet:enic: Fix a use after free bug in enic_hard_start_xmit In enic_hard_start_xmit, it calls enic_queue_wq_skb(). Inside enic_queue_wq_skb, if some error happens, the skb will be freed by dev_kfree_skb(skb). But the freed skb is still used in skb_tx_timestamp(skb). My patch makes enic_queue_wq_skb() return error and goto spin_unlock() incase of error. The solution is provided by Govind. See https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/30/961.