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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47589" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-06-19T14:53:53.565Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:57:27.931Z" 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-2021-47589" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47589.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47589" title: "igbvf: fix double free in `igbvf_probe`" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nigbvf: fix double free in `igbvf_probe`\n\nIn `igbvf_probe`, if register_netdev() fails, the program will go to\nlabel err_hw_init, and then to label err_ioremap. In free_netdev() which\nis just below label err_ioremap, there is `list_for_each_entry_safe` and\n`netif_napi_del` which aims to delete all entries in `dev-\u003enapi_list`.\nThe program has added an entry `adapter-\u003erx_ring-\u003enapi` which is added by\n`netif_napi_add` in igbvf_alloc_queues(). However, adapter-\u003erx_ring has\nbeen freed below label err_hw_init. So this a UAF.\n\nIn terms of how to patch the problem, we can refer to igbvf_remove() and\ndelete the entry before `adapter-\u003erx_ring`.\n\nThe KASAN logs are as follows:\n\n[ 35.126075] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in free_netdev+0x1fd/0x450\n[ 35.127170] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810126d990 by task modprobe/366\n[ 35.128360]\n[ 35.128643] CPU: 1 PID: 366 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 5.15.0-rc2+ #14\n[ 35.129789] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n[ 35.131749] Call Trace:\n[ 35.132199] dump_stack_lvl+0x59/0x7b\n[ 35.132865] print_address_description+0x7c/0x3b0\n[ 35.133707] ? free_netdev+0x1fd/0x450\n[ 35.134378] __kasan_report+0x160/0x1c0\n[ 35.135063] ? free_netdev+0x1fd/0x450\n[ 35.135738] kasan_report+0x4b/0x70\n[ 35.136367] free_netdev+0x1fd/0x450\n[ 35.137006] igbvf_probe+0x121d/0x1a10 [igbvf]\n[ 35.137808] ? igbvf_vlan_rx_add_vid+0x100/0x100 [igbvf]\n[ 35.138751] local_pci_probe+0x13c/0x1f0\n[ 35.139461] pci_device_probe+0x37e/0x6c0\n[ 35.165526]\n[ 35.165806] Allocated by task 366:\n[ 35.166414] ____kasan_kmalloc+0xc4/0xf0\n[ 35.167117] foo_kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x3c/0x50 [igbvf]\n[ 35.168078] igbvf_probe+0x9c5/0x1a10 [igbvf]\n[ 35.168866] local_pci_probe+0x13c/0x1f0\n[ 35.169565] pci_device_probe+0x37e/0x6c0\n[ 35.179713]\n[ 35.179993] Freed by task 366:\n[ 35.180539] kasan_set_track+0x4c/0x80\n[ 35.181211] kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40\n[ 35.181942] ____kasan_slab_free+0x103/0x140\n[ 35.182703] kfree+0xe3/0x250\n[ 35.183239] igbvf_probe+0x1173/0x1a10 [igbvf]\n[ 35.184040] local_pci_probe+0x13c/0x1f0" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d4e0fe01a38a073568aee541a0247fe734095979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ffe1695b678729edec04037e691007900a2b2beb"},{"version":"d4e0fe01a38a073568aee541a0247fe734095979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"79d9b092035dcdbe636b70433149df9cc6db1e49"},{"version":"d4e0fe01a38a073568aee541a0247fe734095979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8d0c927a9fb2b4065230936b77b54f857a3754fc"},{"version":"d4e0fe01a38a073568aee541a0247fe734095979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc9b655bb84f1be283293dfea94dff9a31b106ac"},{"version":"d4e0fe01a38a073568aee541a0247fe734095979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8addba6cab94ce01686ea2e80ed1530f9dc33a9a"},{"version":"d4e0fe01a38a073568aee541a0247fe734095979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"74a16e062b23332d8db017ff4a41e16279c44411"},{"version":"d4e0fe01a38a073568aee541a0247fe734095979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"944b8be08131f5faf2cd2440aa1c24a39a163a54"},{"version":"d4e0fe01a38a073568aee541a0247fe734095979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b6d335a60dc624c0d279333b22c737faa765b028"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.30","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.30"},{"version":"4.4.296","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.4.*"},{"version":"4.9.294","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.168","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.88","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16","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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