# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47283"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T14:20:08.828Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:51:30.780Z"
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-2021-47283"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47283.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47283"
title: "net:sfc: fix non-freed irq in legacy irq mode"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet:sfc: fix non-freed irq in legacy irq mode\n\nSFC driver can be configured via modparam to work using MSI-X, MSI or\nlegacy IRQ interrupts. In the last one, the interrupt was not properly\nreleased on module remove.\n\nIt was not freed because the flag irqs_hooked was not set during\ninitialization in the case of using legacy IRQ.\n\nExample of (trimmed) trace during module remove without this fix:\n\nremove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory 'irq/125', leaking at least '0000:3b:00.1'\nWARNING: CPU: 39 PID: 3658 at fs/proc/generic.c:715 remove_proc_entry+0x15c/0x170\n...trimmed...\nCall Trace:\n unregister_irq_proc+0xe3/0x100\n free_desc+0x29/0x70\n irq_free_descs+0x47/0x70\n mp_unmap_irq+0x58/0x60\n acpi_unregister_gsi_ioapic+0x2a/0x40\n acpi_pci_irq_disable+0x78/0xb0\n pci_disable_device+0xd1/0x100\n efx_pci_remove+0xa1/0x1e0 [sfc]\n pci_device_remove+0x38/0xa0\n __device_release_driver+0x177/0x230\n driver_detach+0xcb/0x110\n bus_remove_driver+0x58/0xd0\n pci_unregister_driver+0x2a/0xb0\n efx_exit_module+0x24/0xf40 [sfc]\n __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x171/0x280\n ? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x83/0x1d0\n do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\nRIP: 0033:0x7f9f9385800b\n...trimmed..."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e6a43910d55d09dae65772ad571d4c61e459b17a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8d717c9135a3340ae62d1699484850bfb4112b0c"},{"version":"e6a43910d55d09dae65772ad571d4c61e459b17a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81c4d1d83f88e15b26f4522a35cba6ffd8c5dfdd"},{"version":"e6a43910d55d09dae65772ad571d4c61e459b17a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f03eeb6e0a0a0b8d617ee0a4bce729e47130036"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"},{"version":"5.10.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.12.11","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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