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CVE-2021-47183

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.33%

26th percentile - higher than 26% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the lpfc SCSI driver has a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability during link down processing. Under certain conditions, it may reference an invalid structure, leading to a crash.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could lead to system crash or driver hang, potentially affecting system availability.

Recommendation

It is recommended to apply the Linux kernel patch that ensures the flag to avoid link traffic is set when issued due to link failure conditions.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: lpfc: Fix link down processing to address NULL pointer dereference If an FC link down transition while PLOGIs are outstanding to fabric well known addresses, outstanding ABTS requests may result in a NULL pointer dereference. Driver unload requests may hang with repeated "2878" log messages. The Link down processing results in ABTS requests for outstanding ELS requests. The Abort WQEs are sent for the ELSs before the driver had set the link state to down. Thus the driver is sending the Abort with the expectation that an ABTS will be sent on the wire. The Abort request is stalled waiting for the link to come up. In some conditions the driver may auto-complete the ELSs thus if the link does come up, the Abort completions may reference an invalid structure. Fix by ensuring that Abort set the flag to avoid link traffic if issued due to conditions where the link failed.

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