CVE-2021-47109

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.0-5.4.124 - Denial of Service via Neighbour Table Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: neighbour: allow NUD_NOARP entries to be forced GCed IFF_POINTOPOINT interfaces use NUD_NOARP entries for IPv6. It's possible to fill up the neighbour table with enough entries that it will overflow for valid connections after that. This behaviour is more prevalent after commit 58956317c8de ("neighbor: Improve garbage collection") is applied, as it prevents removal from entries that are not NUD_FAILED, unless they are more than 5s old.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-190
Status published
Products (12)
Linux/Linux < 5.0
Linux/Linux 5.0
Linux/Linux 5.10.43 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.12.10 - 5.12.*
Linux/Linux 5.13
Linux/Linux 5.4.125 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux 58956317c8de52009d1a38a721474c24aef74fe7 - 7a6b1ab7475fd6478eeaf5c9d1163e7a18125c8f
Linux/Linux 58956317c8de52009d1a38a721474c24aef74fe7 - d17d47da59f726dc4c87caebda3a50333d7e2fd3
Linux/Linux 58956317c8de52009d1a38a721474c24aef74fe7 - d99029e6aab62aef0a0251588b2867e77e83b137
Linux/Linux 58956317c8de52009d1a38a721474c24aef74fe7 - ddf088d7aaaaacfc836104f2e632b29b1d383cfc
... and 2 more
Published Mar 15, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026