CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47093
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-03-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: fix memleak on registration failure
In case device registration fails during module initialisation, the
platform device structure needs to be freed using platform_device_put()
to properly free all resources (e.g. the device name).
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.9 < 5.10.89)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.12)
• linux linux kernel 5.16
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26a8b09437804fabfb1db080d676b96c0de68e7c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a37f2e370699e2feca3dca6c8178c71ceee7e8a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ca1324755f1f8629a370af5cc315b175331f5d1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26a8b09437804fabfb1db080d676b96c0de68e7c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a37f2e370699e2feca3dca6c8178c71ceee7e8a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ca1324755f1f8629a370af5cc315b175331f5d1 Patch