CVE Catalog

CVE-2021-47109

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.68%

49th percentile - higher than 49% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel neighbour module, there is a vulnerability where NUD_NOARP entries cannot be forced to be garbage collected. Point-to-point interfaces use NUD_NOARP entries for IPv6, which can fill up the neighbour table and prevent valid connections.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can fill the neighbour table, causing denial of service for legitimate network connections.

Recommendation

Install a Linux kernel patch that allows forced garbage collection of NUD_NOARP entries.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: neighbour: allow NUD_NOARP entries to be forced GCed IFF_POINTOPOINT interfaces use NUD_NOARP entries for IPv6. It's possible to fill up the neighbour table with enough entries that it will overflow for valid connections after that. This behaviour is more prevalent after commit 58956317c8de ("neighbor: Improve garbage collection") is applied, as it prevents removal from entries that are not NUD_FAILED, unless they are more than 5s old.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS