CVE-2021-46956
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-27 18:46
Modified
2024-11-04 11:56
Severity ?
Summary
virtiofs: fix memory leak in virtio_fs_probe()
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/310efc95c72c13faf855c692d19cd4d054d827c8
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5116e79fc6e6725b8acdad8b7e928a83ab7b47e6
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b9d60c0eb8ada99cce2a9ab5c15dffc523b01ae
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c79c5e0178922a9e092ec8fed026750f39dcaef4
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d19555ff225d0896a33246a49279e6d578095f15
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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