{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-46931 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2021-46931 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Feb 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-2021-46931 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-46931 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Feb 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-2021-46931 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-2021-46931/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-46931/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-46931","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-46931/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-46931","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46931","GHSA-5gx7-f5j6-6r9q","UBUNTU-CVE-2021-46931"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A type confusion bug in the Mellanox mlx5 network driver causes a kernel stack overflow and panic during TX timeout recovery, leading to denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"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":[{"id":"CWE-787","name":"Out-of-bounds Write"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Wrap the tx reporter dump callback to extract the sq\n\nFunction mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump_sq() casts its void * argument to struct\nmlx5e_txqsq *, but in TX-timeout-recovery flow the argument is actually\nof type struct mlx5e_tx_timeout_ctx *.\n\n mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1 enp8s0f1: TX timeout detected\n mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1 enp8s0f1: TX timeout on queue: 1, SQ: 0x11ec, CQ: 0x146d, SQ Cons: 0x0 SQ Prod: 0x1, usecs since last trans: 21565000\n BUG: stack guard page was hit at 0000000093f1a2de (stack is 00000000b66ea0dc..000000004d932dae)\n kernel stack overflow (page fault): 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 5 PID: 95 Comm: kworker/u20:1 Tainted: G W OE 5.13.0_mlnx #1\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n Workqueue: mlx5e mlx5e_tx_timeout_work [mlx5_core]\n RIP: 0010:mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump_sq+0xd3/0x180\n [mlx5_core]\n Call Trace:\n mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump+0x43/0x1c0 [mlx5_core]\n devlink_health_do_dump.part.91+0x71/0xd0\n devlink_health_report+0x157/0x1b0\n mlx5e_reporter_tx_timeout+0xb9/0xf0 [mlx5_core]\n ? mlx5e_tx_reporter_err_cqe_recover+0x1d0/0x1d0\n [mlx5_core]\n ? mlx5e_health_queue_dump+0xd0/0xd0 [mlx5_core]\n ? update_load_avg+0x19b/0x550\n ? set_next_entity+0x72/0x80\n ? pick_next_task_fair+0x227/0x340\n ? finish_task_switch+0xa2/0x280\n   mlx5e_tx_timeout_work+0x83/0xb0 [mlx5_core]\n   process_one_work+0x1de/0x3a0\n   worker_thread+0x2d/0x3c0\n ? process_one_work+0x3a0/0x3a0\n   kthread+0x115/0x130\n ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90\n   ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\n --[ end trace 51ccabea504edaff ]---\n RIP: 0010:mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump_sq+0xd3/0x180\n PKRU: 55555554\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception\n Kernel Offset: disabled\n end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception\n\nTo fix this bug add a wrapper for mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump_sq() which\nextracts the sq from struct mlx5e_tx_timeout_ctx and set it as the\nTX-timeout-recovery flow dump callback.","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":"net/mlx5e: Wrap the tx reporter dump callback to extract the sq","id":"CVE-2021-46931","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Input: appletouch - initialize work before device registration","id":"CVE-2021-46932"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"usb: mtu3: fix list_head check warning","id":"CVE-2021-46930"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-02-27","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":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"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 type confusion bug in the Mellanox mlx5 network driver causes a kernel stack overflow and panic during TX timeout recovery, leading to denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-46931/"}