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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47180" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-03-25T09:16:29.580Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:49:31.554Z" 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-2021-47180" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47180.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47180" title: "NFC: nci: fix memory leak in nci_allocate_device" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNFC: nci: fix memory leak in nci_allocate_device\n\nnfcmrvl_disconnect fails to free the hci_dev field in struct nci_dev.\nFix this by freeing hci_dev in nci_free_device.\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff888111ea6800 (size 1024):\n comm \"kworker/1:0\", pid 19, jiffies 4294942308 (age 13.580s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 60 fd 0c 81 88 ff ff .........`......\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace:\n [\u003c000000004bc25d43\u003e] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:552 [inline]\n [\u003c000000004bc25d43\u003e] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:682 [inline]\n [\u003c000000004bc25d43\u003e] nci_hci_allocate+0x21/0xd0 net/nfc/nci/hci.c:784\n [\u003c00000000c59cff92\u003e] nci_allocate_device net/nfc/nci/core.c:1170 [inline]\n [\u003c00000000c59cff92\u003e] nci_allocate_device+0x10b/0x160 net/nfc/nci/core.c:1132\n [\u003c00000000006e0a8e\u003e] nfcmrvl_nci_register_dev+0x10a/0x1c0 drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/main.c:153\n [\u003c000000004da1b57e\u003e] nfcmrvl_probe+0x223/0x290 drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/usb.c:345\n [\u003c00000000d506aed9\u003e] usb_probe_interface+0x177/0x370 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396\n [\u003c00000000bc632c92\u003e] really_probe+0x159/0x4a0 drivers/base/dd.c:554\n [\u003c00000000f5009125\u003e] driver_probe_device+0x84/0x100 drivers/base/dd.c:740\n [\u003c000000000ce658ca\u003e] __device_attach_driver+0xee/0x110 drivers/base/dd.c:846\n [\u003c000000007067d05f\u003e] bus_for_each_drv+0xb7/0x100 drivers/base/bus.c:431\n [\u003c00000000f8e13372\u003e] __device_attach+0x122/0x250 drivers/base/dd.c:914\n [\u003c000000009cf68860\u003e] bus_probe_device+0xc6/0xe0 drivers/base/bus.c:491\n [\u003c00000000359c965a\u003e] device_add+0x5be/0xc30 drivers/base/core.c:3109\n [\u003c00000000086e4bd3\u003e] usb_set_configuration+0x9d9/0xb90 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2164\n [\u003c00000000ca036872\u003e] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8c/0xc0 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238\n [\u003c00000000d40d36f6\u003e] usb_probe_device+0x5c/0x140 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293\n [\u003c00000000bc632c92\u003e] really_probe+0x159/0x4a0 drivers/base/dd.c:554" affected: 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