CVE-2021-47076

RDMA/rxe: Return CQE error if invalid lkey was supplied

Published Mar 1, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/rxe: Return CQE error if invalid lkey was supplied

RXE is missing update of WQE status in LOCAL_WRITE failures. This caused
the following kernel panic if someone sent an atomic operation with an
explicitly wrong lkey.

[leonro@vm ~]$ mkt test
test_atomic_invalid_lkey (tests.test_atomic.AtomicTest) ...
WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 263 at drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_comp.c:740 rxe_completer+0x1a6d/0x2e30 [rdma_rxe]
Modules linked in: crc32_generic rdma_rxe ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel rdma_ucm rdma_cm ib_umad ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core mlx5_core ptp pps_core
CPU: 5 PID: 263 Comm: python3 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc1+ #2936
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:rxe_completer+0x1a6d/0x2e30 [rdma_rxe]
Code: 03 0f 8e 65 0e 00 00 3b 93 10 06 00 00 0f 84 82 0a 00 00 4c 89 ff 4c 89 44 24 38 e8 2d 74 a9 e1 4c 8b 44 24 38 e9 1c f5 ff ff <0f> 0b e9 0c e8 ff ff b8 05 00 00 00 41 bf 05 00 00 00 e9 ab e7 ff
RSP: 0018:ffff8880158af090 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888016a78000 RCX: ffffffffa0cf1652
RDX: 1ffff9200004b442 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffc9000025a210
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: 00000000ffffffea R09: ffff88801617740b
R10: ffffed1002c2ee81 R11: 0000000000000007 R12: ffff88800f3b63e8
R13: ffff888016a78008 R14: ffffc9000025a180 R15: 000000000000000c
FS: 00007f88b622a740(0000) GS:ffff88806d540000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f88b5a1fa10 CR3: 000000000d848004 CR4: 0000000000370ea0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
rxe_do_task+0x130/0x230 [rdma_rxe]
rxe_rcv+0xb11/0x1df0 [rdma_rxe]
rxe_loopback+0x157/0x1e0 [rdma_rxe]
rxe_responder+0x5532/0x7620 [rdma_rxe]
rxe_do_task+0x130/0x230 [rdma_rxe]
rxe_rcv+0x9c8/0x1df0 [rdma_rxe]
rxe_loopback+0x157/0x1e0 [rdma_rxe]
rxe_requester+0x1efd/0x58c0 [rdma_rxe]
rxe_do_task+0x130/0x230 [rdma_rxe]
rxe_post_send+0x998/0x1860 [rdma_rxe]
ib_uverbs_post_send+0xd5f/0x1220 [ib_uverbs]
ib_uverbs_write+0x847/0xc80 [ib_uverbs]
vfs_write+0x1c5/0x840
ksys_write+0x176/0x1d0
do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-4327-1 linux security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7159-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7159-2 Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7159-3 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7159-4 Linux kernel (IoT) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7159-5 Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7185-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7185-2 Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7195-1 Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7195-2 Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Weaknesses NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Published
Updated
May 11, 2026, 1:47 PM
Reserved
Feb 29, 2024, 10:33 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 1, 2024, 10:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:16 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Mar 1, 2024, 12:00 AM