# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47290"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T14:35:15.411Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:47:06.047Z"
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-2021-47290"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47290.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47290"
title: "scsi: target: Fix NULL dereference on XCOPY completion"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: target: Fix NULL dereference on XCOPY completion\n\nCPU affinity control added with commit 39ae3edda325 (\"scsi: target: core:\nMake completion affinity configurable\") makes target_complete_cmd() queue\nwork on a CPU based on se_tpg-\u003ese_tpg_wwn-\u003ecmd_compl_affinity state.\n\nLIO's EXTENDED COPY worker is a special case in that read/write cmds are\ndispatched using the global xcopy_pt_tpg, which carries a NULL se_tpg_wwn\npointer following initialization in target_xcopy_setup_pt().\n\nThe NULL xcopy_pt_tpg-\u003ese_tpg_wwn pointer is dereferenced on completion of\nany EXTENDED COPY initiated read/write cmds. E.g using the libiscsi\nSCSI.ExtendedCopy.Simple test:\n\n  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000001a8\n  RIP: 0010:target_complete_cmd+0x9d/0x130 [target_core_mod]\n  Call Trace:\n   fd_execute_rw+0x148/0x42a [target_core_file]\n   ? __dynamic_pr_debug+0xa7/0xe0\n   ? target_check_reservation+0x5b/0x940 [target_core_mod]\n   __target_execute_cmd+0x1e/0x90 [target_core_mod]\n   transport_generic_new_cmd+0x17c/0x330 [target_core_mod]\n   target_xcopy_issue_pt_cmd+0x9/0x60 [target_core_mod]\n   target_xcopy_read_source.isra.7+0x10b/0x1b0 [target_core_mod]\n   ? target_check_fua+0x40/0x40 [target_core_mod]\n   ? transport_complete_task_attr+0x130/0x130 [target_core_mod]\n   target_xcopy_do_work+0x61f/0xc00 [target_core_mod]\n\nThis fix makes target_complete_cmd() queue work on se_cmd-\u003ecpuid if\nse_tpg_wwn is NULL."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"39ae3edda325e9cf9e978c9788affe88231f3b34","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e7732c5a19a15a62b0b23fd683a639b0483e1f40"},{"version":"39ae3edda325e9cf9e978c9788affe88231f3b34","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a47fa41381a09e5997afd762664db4f5f6657e03"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"5.13.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.13.*"},{"version":"5.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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