CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-45480
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.15.11. There is a memory leak in the __rds_conn_create() function in net/rds/connection.c in a certain combination of circumstances.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.15.11)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.15.11 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5f9562ebe710c307adc5f666bf1a2162ee7977c0 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5050 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096 Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.15.11 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5f9562ebe710c307adc5f666bf1a2162ee7977c0 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5050 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096 Third Party Advisory