CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47173
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-03-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
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
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.14 < 4.4.271)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.271)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.235)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.193)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.124)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.42)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.12.9)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36b5ff1db1a4ef4fdbc2bae364344279f033ad88 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/386918878ce4cd676e4607233866e03c9399a46a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5394ae9d8c7961dd93807fdf1b12a1dde96b0a55 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f46b2410db2c8f26b8bb91b40deebf4ec184391 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7889c70e6173ef358f3cd7578db127a489035a42 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3c3face38cb49932c62adcc1289914f1c742096 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcb30cc8f8befcbdbcf7a016e4dfd4747c54a364 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcb4b8ad6a448532d8b681b5d1a7036210b622de Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36b5ff1db1a4ef4fdbc2bae364344279f033ad88 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/386918878ce4cd676e4607233866e03c9399a46a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5394ae9d8c7961dd93807fdf1b12a1dde96b0a55 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f46b2410db2c8f26b8bb91b40deebf4ec184391 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7889c70e6173ef358f3cd7578db127a489035a42 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3c3face38cb49932c62adcc1289914f1c742096 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcb30cc8f8befcbdbcf7a016e4dfd4747c54a364 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcb4b8ad6a448532d8b681b5d1a7036210b622de Patch