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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47173" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-03-25T09:16:24.466Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:49:23.402Z" 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-2021-47173" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47173.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47173" title: "misc/uss720: fix memory leak in uss720_probe" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmisc/uss720: fix memory leak in uss720_probe\n\nuss720_probe forgets to decrease the refcount of usbdev in uss720_probe.\nFix this by decreasing the refcount of usbdev by usb_put_dev.\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff888101113800 (size 2048):\n comm \"kworker/0:1\", pid 7, jiffies 4294956777 (age 28.870s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n ff ff ff ff 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....1...........\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace:\n [\u003cffffffff82b8e822\u003e] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:554 [inline]\n [\u003cffffffff82b8e822\u003e] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:684 [inline]\n [\u003cffffffff82b8e822\u003e] usb_alloc_dev+0x32/0x450 drivers/usb/core/usb.c:582\n [\u003cffffffff82b98441\u003e] hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5129 [inline]\n [\u003cffffffff82b98441\u003e] hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5363 [inline]\n [\u003cffffffff82b98441\u003e] port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5509 [inline]\n [\u003cffffffff82b98441\u003e] hub_event+0x1171/0x20c0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5591\n [\u003cffffffff81259229\u003e] process_one_work+0x2c9/0x600 kernel/workqueue.c:2275\n [\u003cffffffff81259b19\u003e] worker_thread+0x59/0x5d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2421\n [\u003cffffffff81261228\u003e] kthread+0x178/0x1b0 kernel/kthread.c:292\n [\u003cffffffff8100227f\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:294" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f46b2410db2c8f26b8bb91b40deebf4ec184391"},{"version":"0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7889c70e6173ef358f3cd7578db127a489035a42"},{"version":"0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bcb30cc8f8befcbdbcf7a016e4dfd4747c54a364"},{"version":"0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"386918878ce4cd676e4607233866e03c9399a46a"},{"version":"0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36b5ff1db1a4ef4fdbc2bae364344279f033ad88"},{"version":"0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5394ae9d8c7961dd93807fdf1b12a1dde96b0a55"},{"version":"0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3c3face38cb49932c62adcc1289914f1c742096"},{"version":"0f36163d3abefbda1b21a330b3fdf3c2dc076d94","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dcb4b8ad6a448532d8b681b5d1a7036210b622de"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.14"},{"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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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