{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-4442 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2021-4442 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 29 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-4442 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-4442 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 29 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-4442 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-4442/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-4442/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-4442","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-4442/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-4442","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2021-4442","GHSA-f9pf-68jx-89j3","UBUNTU-CVE-2021-4442"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel TCP","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel warning and potential crash by manipulating TCP sequence numbers via TCP_QUEUE_SEQ when the receive queue is not empty.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp: add sanity tests to TCP_QUEUE_SEQ\n\nQingyu Li reported a syzkaller bug where the repro\nchanges RCV SEQ _after_ restoring data in the receive queue.\n\nmprotect(0x4aa000, 12288, PROT_READ)    = 0\nmmap(0x1ffff000, 4096, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x1ffff000\nmmap(0x20000000, 16777216, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x20000000\nmmap(0x21000000, 4096, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x21000000\nsocket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 3\nsetsockopt(3, SOL_TCP, TCP_REPAIR, [1], 4) = 0\nconnect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(0), sin6_flowinfo=htonl(0), inet_pton(AF_INET6, \"::1\", \u0026sin6_addr), sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = 0\nsetsockopt(3, SOL_TCP, TCP_REPAIR_QUEUE, [1], 4) = 0\nsendmsg(3, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base=\"0x0000000000000003\\0\\0\", iov_len=20}], msg_iovlen=1, msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 20\nsetsockopt(3, SOL_TCP, TCP_REPAIR, [0], 4) = 0\nsetsockopt(3, SOL_TCP, TCP_QUEUE_SEQ, [128], 4) = 0\nrecvfrom(3, NULL, 20, 0, NULL, NULL)    = -1 ECONNRESET (Connection reset by peer)\n\nsyslog shows:\n[  111.205099] TCP recvmsg seq # bug 2: copied 80, seq 0, rcvnxt 80, fl 0\n[  111.207894] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 356 at net/ipv4/tcp.c:2343 tcp_recvmsg_locked+0x90e/0x29a0\n\nThis should not be allowed. TCP_QUEUE_SEQ should only be used\nwhen queues are empty.\n\nThis patch fixes this case, and the tx path as well.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"tcp: add sanity tests to TCP_QUEUE_SEQ","id":"CVE-2021-4442","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"WordPress Mega Menu \u003c= 2.0.6 - Arbitrary File Creation","id":"CVE-2021-4443"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"spi: spi-zynq-qspi: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in zynq_qspi_exec_mem_op()","id":"CVE-2021-4441"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-08-29","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel warning and potential crash by manipulating TCP sequence numbers via TCP_QUEUE_SEQ when the receive queue is not empty.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-4442/"}