{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47173 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2021-47173 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Mar 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-47173 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-47173 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Mar 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47173 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47173/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47173/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-47173","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47173/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-47173","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47173","GHSA-8rjr-8h65-297v","UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47173"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A memory leak in the uss720 driver allows attackers to exhaust kernel memory, potentially causing a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-401","name":"Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime"}],"description":"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 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Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API 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