CVE-2021-47473

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix a memory leak in an error path of qla2x00_process_els() Commit 8c0eb596baa5 ("[SCSI] qla2xxx: Fix a memory leak in an error path of qla2x00_process_els()"), intended to change: bsg_job->request->msgcode == FC_BSG_HST_ELS_NOLOGIN bsg_job->request->msgcode != FC_BSG_RPT_ELS but changed it to: bsg_job->request->msgcode == FC_BSG_RPT_ELS instead. Change the == to a != to avoid leaking the fcport structure or freeing unallocated memory.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-47473

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-47473.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.14.16-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.84-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.14.16-1
debian debiansidfixed5.14.16-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.14.16-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.