CVE Catalog

CVE-2021-47203

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.34%

27th percentile - higher than 27% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the lpfc (SCSI) driver has a list corruption vulnerability in lpfc_drain_txq(). An error handling bug causes jobs to be added to the completions list even without an error, leading to list corruption.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could lead to system crash or improper driver behavior, potentially affecting service availability.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a patched version that clears the error message.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: lpfc: Fix list_add() corruption in lpfc_drain_txq() When parsing the txq list in lpfc_drain_txq(), the driver attempts to pass the requests to the adapter. If such an attempt fails, a local "fail_msg" string is set and a log message output. The job is then added to a completions list for cancellation. Processing of any further jobs from the txq list continues, but since "fail_msg" remains set, jobs are added to the completions list regardless of whether a wqe was passed to the adapter. If successfully added to txcmplq, jobs are added to both lists resulting in list corruption. Fix by clearing the fail_msg string after adding a job to the completions list. This stops the subsequent jobs from being added to the completions list unless they had an appropriate failure.

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