CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-47538

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-05-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-05-24
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: rxrpc: Fix rxrpc_local leak in rxrpc_lookup_peer() Need to call rxrpc_put_local() for peer candidate before kfree() as it holds a ref to rxrpc_local. [DH: v2: Changed to abstract the peer freeing code out into a function]

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19.82 < 4.19.220) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.3.9 < 5.4) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.1 < 5.4.164) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.84) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.7) • linux linux kernel 5.4 • linux linux kernel 5.16

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References