CVE-2021-47173 (GCVE-0-2021-47173)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-25 09:16 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:49
VLAI
Title
misc/uss720: fix memory leak in uss720_probe
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc/uss720: fix memory leak in uss720_probe uss720_probe forgets to decrease the refcount of usbdev in uss720_probe. Fix this by decreasing the refcount of usbdev by usb_put_dev. BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888101113800 (size 2048): comm "kworker/0:1", pid 7, jiffies 4294956777 (age 28.870s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): ff ff ff ff 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....1........... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff82b8e822>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:554 [inline] [<ffffffff82b8e822>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:684 [inline] [<ffffffff82b8e822>] usb_alloc_dev+0x32/0x450 drivers/usb/core/usb.c:582 [<ffffffff82b98441>] hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5129 [inline] [<ffffffff82b98441>] hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5363 [inline] [<ffffffff82b98441>] port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5509 [inline] [<ffffffff82b98441>] hub_event+0x1171/0x20c0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5591 [<ffffffff81259229>] process_one_work+0x2c9/0x600 kernel/workqueue.c:2275 [<ffffffff81259b19>] worker_thread+0x59/0x5d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2421 [<ffffffff81261228>] kthread+0x178/0x1b0 kernel/kthread.c:292 [<ffffffff8100227f>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:294
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-21 16:08 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94 , < 5f46b2410db2c8f26b8bb91b40deebf4ec184391 (git)
Affected: 0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94 , < 7889c70e6173ef358f3cd7578db127a489035a42 (git)
Affected: 0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94 , < bcb30cc8f8befcbdbcf7a016e4dfd4747c54a364 (git)
Affected: 0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94 , < 386918878ce4cd676e4607233866e03c9399a46a (git)
Affected: 0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94 , < 36b5ff1db1a4ef4fdbc2bae364344279f033ad88 (git)
Affected: 0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94 , < 5394ae9d8c7961dd93807fdf1b12a1dde96b0a55 (git)
Affected: 0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94 , < a3c3face38cb49932c62adcc1289914f1c742096 (git)
Affected: 0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94 , < dcb4b8ad6a448532d8b681b5d1a7036210b622de (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.4.271 , ≤ 4.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.9.271 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.235 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.193 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.124 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.42 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.12.9 , ≤ 5.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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