CVE-2021-47045: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: lpfc: Fix null pointer dereference in lpfc_prep_els_iocb() It is possible to call lpfc_issue_els_plogi() passing a did for which no matching ndlp is found. A call is then made to lpfc_prep_els_iocb() with a null pointer to a lpfc_nodelist structure resulting in a null pointer dereference. Fix by returning an error status if no valid ndlp is found. Fix up comments regarding ndlp reference counting.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.11, before 5.11.21 (fixed in 5.11.21); from 5.12, before 5.12.4 (fixed in 5.12.4)

Published 2024-02-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.