CVE-2021-47258

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

21/05/2024

Last modified:

30/04/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: Fix error handling of scsi_host_alloc() After device is initialized via device_initialize(), or its name is set via dev_set_name(), the device has to be freed via put_device(). Otherwise device name will be leaked because it is allocated dynamically in dev_set_name(). Fix the leak by replacing kfree() with put_device(). Since scsi_host_dev_release() properly handles IDA and kthread removal, remove special-casing these from the error handling as well.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::		4.9.273 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.10 (including)	4.14.237 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.15 (including)	4.19.195 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.126 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.44 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.12.11 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc4::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc5::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2021-47258

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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