CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47455
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-05-22
- 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:
ptp: Fix possible memory leak in ptp_clock_register()
I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:
unreferenced object 0xffff88800906c618 (size 8):
comm "i2c-idt82p33931", pid 4421, jiffies 4294948083 (age 13.188s)
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
70 74 70 30 00 00 00 00 ptp0....
backtrace:
[<00000000312ed458>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x19f/0x3a0
[<0000000079f6e2ff>] kvasprintf+0xb5/0x150
[<0000000026aae54f>] kvasprintf_const+0x60/0x190
[<00000000f323a5f7>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150
[<000000004e35abdd>] dev_set_name+0xc0/0x100
[<00000000f20cfe25>] ptp_clock_register+0x9f4/0xd30 [ptp]
[<000000008bb9f0de>] idt82p33_probe.cold+0x8b6/0x1561 [ptp_idt82p33]
When posix_clock_register() returns an error, the name allocated
in dev_set_name() will be leaked, the put_device() should be used
to give up the device reference, then the name will be freed in
kobject_cleanup() and other memory will be freed in ptp_clock_release().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.16.83 < 3.17)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.4.224 < 4.5)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9.224 < 4.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.14.162 < 4.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19.93 < 4.20)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.8 < 5.14.15)
• 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/4225fea1cb28370086e17e82c0f69bec2779dca0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95c0a0c5ec8839f8f21672be786e87a100319ca8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1c96d8085588e1b997a96214b409ac3be20b524 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4225fea1cb28370086e17e82c0f69bec2779dca0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95c0a0c5ec8839f8f21672be786e87a100319ca8 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html lists.debian.org