Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-46968

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

s390/zcrypt: fix zcard and zqueue hot-unplug memleak

Tests with kvm and a kmemdebug kernel showed, that on hot unplug the zcard and zqueue structs for the unplugged card or queue are not properly freed because of a mismatch with get/put for the embedded kref counter.

This fix now adjusts the handling of the kref counters. With init the kref counter starts with 1. This initial value needs to drop to zero with the unregister of the card or queue to trigger the release and free the object.

Affected products

Linux/Kernel3 versions
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=5.10,<5.10.36
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: 5.10
osv-coords43 versions
pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-64kb&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-64kb&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-64kb&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Availability%20Extension%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Live%20Patching%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default-base&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default-base&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default-base&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default-base&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default-base&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default-base&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-docs&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-docs&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-docs&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-docs&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP3_Update_42&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Live%20Patching%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-obs-build&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-obs-build&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-obs-build&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-obs-build&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-preempt&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-preempt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-preempt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-preempt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-rt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-rt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-source&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-source&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-source&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-source&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-source-rt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-source-rt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-zfcpdump&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSS
< 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2+ 42 more
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2.150300.18.90.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2.150300.18.90.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2.150300.18.90.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2.150300.18.90.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2.150300.18.90.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2.150300.18.90.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1-150300.7.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.161.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.161.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.161.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.161.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.153.2

cvss	0.358
epss	0.000
exploit	0.000
kev	0.000
patch	0.000
ransomware	0.000

CVE-2021-46968

Description

Affected products

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