# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47171"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-25T09:16:22.993Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:49:21.036Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:36.661Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47171"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47171.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47171"
title: "net: usb: fix memory leak in smsc75xx_bind"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: usb: fix memory leak in smsc75xx_bind\n\nSyzbot reported memory leak in smsc75xx_bind().\nThe problem was is non-freed memory in case of\nerrors after memory allocation.\n\nbacktrace:\n  [\u003cffffffff84245b62\u003e] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:556 [inline]\n  [\u003cffffffff84245b62\u003e] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:686 [inline]\n  [\u003cffffffff84245b62\u003e] smsc75xx_bind+0x7a/0x334 drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:1460\n  [\u003cffffffff82b5b2e6\u003e] usbnet_probe+0x3b6/0xc30 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1728"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d0cad871703b898a442e4049c532ec39168e5b57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"200dbfcad8011e50c3cec269ed7b980836eeb1fa"},{"version":"d0cad871703b898a442e4049c532ec39168e5b57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22c840596af0c09068b6cf948616e6496e59e07f"},{"version":"d0cad871703b898a442e4049c532ec39168e5b57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e6b8c1ff9d997e1fa16cbd2d60739adf6dc1bbc"},{"version":"d0cad871703b898a442e4049c532ec39168e5b57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e6a3eccb28779710cbbafc4f4258d92509c6d07"},{"version":"d0cad871703b898a442e4049c532ec39168e5b57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b95fb96e6339e34694dd578fb6bde3575b01af17"},{"version":"d0cad871703b898a442e4049c532ec39168e5b57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"635ac38b36255d3cfb8312cf7c471334f4d537e0"},{"version":"d0cad871703b898a442e4049c532ec39168e5b57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"70c886ac93f87ae7214a0c69151a28a8075dd95b"},{"version":"d0cad871703b898a442e4049c532ec39168e5b57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46a8b29c6306d8bbfd92b614ef65a47c900d8e70"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.34","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.34"},{"version":"4.4.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.4.*"},{"version":"4.9.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.235","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.193","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.124","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.12.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.12.*"},{"version":"5.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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