CVE-2021-46935
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-27 09:44
Modified
2024-11-04 11:56
Severity ?
Summary
binder: fix async_free_space accounting for empty parcels
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/103b16a8c51f96d5fe063022869ea906c256e5daPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17691bada6b2f1d5f1c0f6d28cd9d0727023b0ffPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cb8444f3114f0bb2f6e3bcadcf09aa4a28425d4Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d2df539d05205fd83c404d5f2dff48d36f9b495Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c7064402609aeb6fb11be1b4ec10673ff17b593Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfd0d84ba28c18b531648c9d4a35ecca89ad9901Patch
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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