CVE-2021-47451 (GCVE-0-2021-47451)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-22 06:19 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:47
VLAI
Title
netfilter: xt_IDLETIMER: fix panic that occurs when timer_type has garbage value
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: xt_IDLETIMER: fix panic that occurs when timer_type has garbage value Currently, when the rule related to IDLETIMER is added, idletimer_tg timer structure is initialized by kmalloc on executing idletimer_tg_create function. However, in this process timer->timer_type is not defined to a specific value. Thus, timer->timer_type has garbage value and it occurs kernel panic. So, this commit fixes the panic by initializing timer->timer_type using kzalloc instead of kmalloc. Test commands: # iptables -A OUTPUT -j IDLETIMER --timeout 1 --label test $ cat /sys/class/xt_idletimer/timers/test Killed Splat looks like: BUG: KASAN: user-memory-access in alarm_expires_remaining+0x49/0x70 Read of size 8 at addr 0000002e8c7bc4c8 by task cat/917 CPU: 12 PID: 917 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.14.0+ #3 79940a339f71eb14fc81aee1757a20d5bf13eb0e Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x6e/0x9c kasan_report.cold+0x112/0x117 ? alarm_expires_remaining+0x49/0x70 __asan_load8+0x86/0xb0 alarm_expires_remaining+0x49/0x70 idletimer_tg_show+0xe5/0x19b [xt_IDLETIMER 11219304af9316a21bee5ba9d58f76a6b9bccc6d] dev_attr_show+0x3c/0x60 sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x11d/0x1f0 ? device_remove_bin_file+0x20/0x20 kernfs_seq_show+0xa4/0xb0 seq_read_iter+0x29c/0x750 kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x25a/0x2c0 ? __fsnotify_parent+0x3d1/0x570 ? iov_iter_init+0x70/0x90 new_sync_read+0x2a7/0x3d0 ? __x64_sys_llseek+0x230/0x230 ? rw_verify_area+0x81/0x150 vfs_read+0x17b/0x240 ksys_read+0xd9/0x180 ? vfs_write+0x460/0x460 ? do_syscall_64+0x16/0xc0 ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x79/0x120 __x64_sys_read+0x43/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f0cdc819142 Code: c0 e9 c2 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d 3a ca 0a 00 e8 f5 19 02 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 56 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 RSP: 002b:00007fff28eee5b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007f0cdc819142 RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007f0cdc032000 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007f0cdc032000 R08: 00007f0cdc031010 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00005607e9ee31f0 R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-24 19:25 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 68983a354a655c35d3fb204489d383a2a051fda7 , < 2a670c323055282c9b72794a491d53cef86bbeaf (git)
Affected: 68983a354a655c35d3fb204489d383a2a051fda7 , < cae7cab804c943d723d52724a3aeb07a3f4a2650 (git)
Affected: 68983a354a655c35d3fb204489d383a2a051fda7 , < 902c0b1887522a099aa4e1e6b4b476c2fe5dd13e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.76 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.14.15 , ≤ 5.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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                      "versionEndExcluding": "5.15",
                      "versionStartIncluding": "5.7",
                      "vulnerable": true
                    }
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          "descriptions": [
            {
              "lang": "en",
              "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: xt_IDLETIMER: fix panic that occurs when timer_type has garbage value\n\nCurrently, when the rule related to IDLETIMER is added, idletimer_tg timer\nstructure is initialized by kmalloc on executing idletimer_tg_create\nfunction. However, in this process timer-\u003etimer_type is not defined to\na specific value. Thus, timer-\u003etimer_type has garbage value and it occurs\nkernel panic. So, this commit fixes the panic by initializing\ntimer-\u003etimer_type using kzalloc instead of kmalloc.\n\nTest commands:\n    # iptables -A OUTPUT -j IDLETIMER --timeout 1 --label test\n    $ cat /sys/class/xt_idletimer/timers/test\n      Killed\n\nSplat looks like:\n    BUG: KASAN: user-memory-access in alarm_expires_remaining+0x49/0x70\n    Read of size 8 at addr 0000002e8c7bc4c8 by task cat/917\n    CPU: 12 PID: 917 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.14.0+ #3 79940a339f71eb14fc81aee1757a20d5bf13eb0e\n    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014\n    Call Trace:\n     dump_stack_lvl+0x6e/0x9c\n     kasan_report.cold+0x112/0x117\n     ? alarm_expires_remaining+0x49/0x70\n     __asan_load8+0x86/0xb0\n     alarm_expires_remaining+0x49/0x70\n     idletimer_tg_show+0xe5/0x19b [xt_IDLETIMER 11219304af9316a21bee5ba9d58f76a6b9bccc6d]\n     dev_attr_show+0x3c/0x60\n     sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x11d/0x1f0\n     ? device_remove_bin_file+0x20/0x20\n     kernfs_seq_show+0xa4/0xb0\n     seq_read_iter+0x29c/0x750\n     kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x25a/0x2c0\n     ? __fsnotify_parent+0x3d1/0x570\n     ? iov_iter_init+0x70/0x90\n     new_sync_read+0x2a7/0x3d0\n     ? __x64_sys_llseek+0x230/0x230\n     ? rw_verify_area+0x81/0x150\n     vfs_read+0x17b/0x240\n     ksys_read+0xd9/0x180\n     ? vfs_write+0x460/0x460\n     ? do_syscall_64+0x16/0xc0\n     ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x79/0x120\n     __x64_sys_read+0x43/0x50\n     do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0\n     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n    RIP: 0033:0x7f0cdc819142\n    Code: c0 e9 c2 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d 3a ca 0a 00 e8 f5 19 02 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 56 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24\n    RSP: 002b:00007fff28eee5b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000\n    RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007f0cdc819142\n    RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007f0cdc032000 RDI: 0000000000000003\n    RBP: 00007f0cdc032000 R08: 00007f0cdc031010 R09: 0000000000000000\n    R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00005607e9ee31f0\n    R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000"
            }
          ],
          "metrics": [
            {
              "cvssV3_1": {
                "baseScore": 7.8,
                "baseSeverity": "HIGH",
                "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                "version": "3.1"
              },
              "scenarios": [
                {
                  "lang": "en",
                  "value": "AV:L - The bug is reached by adding an xt_IDLETIMER iptables/ip6tables rule (setsockopt/netlink) and then reading the world-readable sysfs attribute under /sys/class/xt_idletimer/timers/; per guidance netfilter/xtables is Local, not Network.\nAC:L - An attacker who can create the rule and read the sysfs file triggers the path reliably; roughly half of uninitialized timer_type values take the alarm branch, and retries or heap spraying make favorable garbage deterministic with no victim-controlled precondition.\nPR:L - Creating IDLETIMER rules only needs CAP_NET_ADMIN checked via ns_capable() in do_ipt_set_ctl/do_ip6t_set_ctl, which an unprivileged user obtains in a user+net namespace; alternatively, if a rule already exists (common on Android), any unprivileged process can trigger via the 0444 sysfs show path.\nUI:N - The attacker creates the IDLETIMER target and reads the sysfs timer attribute themselves; no separate victim action is required.\nS:U - Impact is confined to the host kernel authority (oops/panic or local privilege-escalation class memory unsafety); this is not a VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or other cross-boundary compromise.\nC:H - idletimer_tg_show calls alarm_expires_remaining() on an uninitialized struct alarm, using garbage alarm-\u003etype as an unbounded index into alarm_bases[] (OOB read of kernel memory) and returning derived values to userspace via sysfs; per guidance unbounded OOB reads score Confidentiality High.\nI:H - The same OOB alarm_bases[type] access loads and invokes base-\u003eget_ktime() as a function pointer from attacker-influenced/out-of-bounds memory, which is a control-flow hijack primitive; with heap spraying of the kmalloc\u0027d idletimer_tg this is Integrity High.\nA:H - The demonstrated KASAN user-memory-access in alarm_expires_remaining leads to kernel oops/panic when the uninitialized alarm path is taken, fully denying availability."
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          "providerMetadata": {
            "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T08:47:54.091Z",
            "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
            "shortName": "Linux"
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          "references": [
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              "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a670c323055282c9b72794a491d53cef86bbeaf"
            },
            {
              "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cae7cab804c943d723d52724a3aeb07a3f4a2650"
            },
            {
              "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/902c0b1887522a099aa4e1e6b4b476c2fe5dd13e"
            }
          ],
          "title": "netfilter: xt_IDLETIMER: fix panic that occurs when timer_type has garbage value",
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      "cveMetadata": {
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "cveId": "CVE-2021-47451",
        "datePublished": "2024-05-22T06:19:42.082Z",
        "dateReserved": "2024-05-21T14:58:30.832Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T08:47:54.091Z",
        "state": "PUBLISHED"
      },
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}



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