{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-46942 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2021-46942 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2021-46942 is a medium-severity denial of service 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-2021-46942 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-46942 is a medium-severity denial of service 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-2021-46942 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-2021-46942/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-46942/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-46942","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-46942/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-46942","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-rhmj-w54j-qcf6","UBUNTU-CVE-2021-46942"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A flaw in the Linux kernel's io_uring subsystem causes shared sqpoll cancellation hangs, leading to a denial of service.","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\nio_uring: fix shared sqpoll cancellation hangs\n\n[  736.982891] INFO: task iou-sqp-4294:4295 blocked for more than 122 seconds.\n[  736.982897] Call Trace:\n[  736.982901]  schedule+0x68/0xe0\n[  736.982903]  io_uring_cancel_sqpoll+0xdb/0x110\n[  736.982908]  io_sqpoll_cancel_cb+0x24/0x30\n[  736.982911]  io_run_task_work_head+0x28/0x50\n[  736.982913]  io_sq_thread+0x4e3/0x720\n\nWe call io_uring_cancel_sqpoll() one by one for each ctx either in\nsq_thread() itself or via task works, and it's intended to cancel all\nrequests of a specified context. However the function uses per-task\ncounters to track the number of inflight requests, so it counts more\nrequests than available via currect io_uring ctx and goes to sleep for\nthem to appear (e.g. from IRQ), that will never happen.\n\nCancel a bit more than before, i.e. all ctxs that share sqpoll\nand continue to use shared counters. Don't forget that we should not\nremove ctx from the list before running that task_work sqpoll-cancel,\notherwise the function wouldn't be able to find the context and will\nhang.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"io_uring: fix shared sqpoll cancellation hangs","id":"CVE-2021-46942","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":2,"next":{"headline":"media: staging/intel-ipu3: Fix set_fmt error handling","id":"CVE-2021-46943"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"usb: dwc3: core: Do core softreset when switch mode","id":"CVE-2021-46941"},"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":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A flaw in the Linux kernel's io_uring subsystem causes shared sqpoll cancellation hangs, leading to a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-46942/"}