CVE-2021-47045

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a null pointer dereference in the lpfc prep els iocb() function. This can occur when lpfc issue els plogi() is called with a did for which no matching ndlp is found, resulting in a null pointer to a lpfc nodelist structure. The fix involves returning an error status if no valid ndlp is found and updating comments regarding ndlp reference counting.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.