CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47364
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-05-21
- 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:
comedi: Fix memory leak in compat_insnlist()
`compat_insnlist()` handles the 32-bit version of the `COMEDI_INSNLIST`
ioctl (whenwhen `CONFIG_COMPAT` is enabled). It allocates memory to
temporarily hold an array of `struct comedi_insn` converted from the
32-bit version in user space. This memory is only being freed if there
is a fault while filling the array, otherwise it is leaked.
Add a call to `kfree()` to fix the leak.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.8 < 5.10.70)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.14.9)
• linux linux kernel 5.15
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d6a21e4cd6a319b0662cbe4ad6199e276ac776a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb509a6ffed2c8b0950f637ab5779aa818ed1596 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f217b6c1e28ed0b353634ce4d92a155b80bd1671 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d6a21e4cd6a319b0662cbe4ad6199e276ac776a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb509a6ffed2c8b0950f637ab5779aa818ed1596 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f217b6c1e28ed0b353634ce4d92a155b80bd1671 Patch