{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47408 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2021-47408 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 May 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-2021-47408 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-47408 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 May 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-2021-47408 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-2021-47408/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47408/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-47408","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47408/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-47408","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47408","GHSA-4gxv-hggr-2473","UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47408"],"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 race condition in Linux kernel netfilter conntrack hash resizes can cause excessive CPU usage and system hangs during network namespace cleanup.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":4.7,"severity":"medium","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/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\nnetfilter: conntrack: serialize hash resizes and cleanups\n\nSyzbot was able to trigger the following warning [1]\n\nNo repro found by syzbot yet but I was able to trigger similar issue\nby having 2 scripts running in parallel, changing conntrack hash sizes,\nand:\n\nfor j in `seq 1 1000` ; do unshare -n /bin/true \u003e/dev/null ; done\n\nIt would take more than 5 minutes for net_namespace structures\nto be cleaned up.\n\nThis is because nf_ct_iterate_cleanup() has to restart everytime\na resize happened.\n\nBy adding a mutex, we can serialize hash resizes and cleanups\nand also make get_next_corpse() faster by skipping over empty\nbuckets.\n\nEven without resizes in the picture, this patch considerably\nspeeds up network namespace dismantles.\n\n[1]\nINFO: task syz-executor.0:8312 can't die for more than 144 seconds.\ntask:syz-executor.0  state:R  running task     stack:25672 pid: 8312 ppid:  6573 flags:0x00004006\nCall Trace:\n context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:4955 [inline]\n __schedule+0x940/0x26f0 kernel/sched/core.c:6236\n preempt_schedule_common+0x45/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6408\n preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x18 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:35\n __local_bh_enable_ip+0x109/0x120 kernel/softirq.c:390\n local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:32 [inline]\n get_next_corpse net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2252 [inline]\n nf_ct_iterate_cleanup+0x15a/0x450 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2275\n nf_conntrack_cleanup_net_list+0x14c/0x4f0 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2469\n ops_exit_list+0x10d/0x160 net/core/net_namespace.c:171\n setup_net+0x639/0xa30 net/core/net_namespace.c:349\n copy_net_ns+0x319/0x760 net/core/net_namespace.c:470\n create_new_namespaces+0x3f6/0xb20 kernel/nsproxy.c:110\n unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xc1/0x1f0 kernel/nsproxy.c:226\n ksys_unshare+0x445/0x920 kernel/fork.c:3128\n __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3202 [inline]\n __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3200 [inline]\n __x64_sys_unshare+0x2d/0x40 kernel/fork.c:3200\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\nRIP: 0033:0x7f63da68e739\nRSP: 002b:00007f63d7c05188 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000110\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f63da792f80 RCX: 00007f63da68e739\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000040000000\nRBP: 00007f63da6e8cc4 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f63da792f80\nR13: 00007fff50b75d3f R14: 00007f63d7c05300 R15: 0000000000022000\n\nShowing all locks held in the system:\n1 lock held by khungtaskd/27:\n #0: ffffffff8b980020 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x53/0x260 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6446\n2 locks held by kworker/u4:2/153:\n #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: arch_atomic64_set arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:34 [inline]\n #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: arch_atomic_long_set include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:41 [inline]\n #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: atomic_long_set include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1198 [inline]\n #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: set_work_data kernel/workqueue.c:634 [inline]\n #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: set_work_pool_and_clear_pending kernel/workqueue.c:661 [inline]\n #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x896/0x1690 kernel/workqueue.c:2268\n #1: ffffc9000140fdb0 ((kfence_timer).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x8ca/0x1690 kernel/workqueue.c:2272\n1 lock held by systemd-udevd/2970:\n1 lock held by in:imklog/6258:\n #0: ffff88807f970ff0 (\u0026f-\u003ef_pos_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __fdget_pos+0xe9/0x100 fs/file.c:990\n3 locks held by kworker/1:6/8158:\n1 lock held by syz-executor.0/8312:\n2 locks held by kworker/u4:13/9320:\n1 lock held by\n---truncated---","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":"netfilter: conntrack: serialize hash resizes and cleanups","id":"CVE-2021-47408","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"usb: dwc2: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()","id":"CVE-2021-47409"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"KVM: x86: Handle SRCU initialization failure during page track init","id":"CVE-2021-47407"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-05-21","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 race condition in Linux kernel netfilter conntrack hash resizes can cause excessive CPU usage and system hangs during network namespace cleanup.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47408/"}