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CVE-2021-47116 (GCVE-0-2021-47116)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-15 20:14 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:19
VLAI
Title
ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_mb_init_backend on error path.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_mb_init_backend on error path. Fix a memory leak discovered by syzbot when a file system is corrupted with an illegally large s_log_groups_per_flex.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-04-05 17:36 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: df61d3cff422433527d3bc388f69484f0781d226 , < 2050c6e5b161e5e25ce3c420fef58b24fa388a49 (git)
Affected: f91436d55a279f045987e8b8c1385585dca54be9 , < 04fb2baa0b147f51db065a1b13a11954abe592d0 (git)
Affected: f91436d55a279f045987e8b8c1385585dca54be9 , < a8867f4e3809050571c98de7a2d465aff5e4daf5 (git)
Affected: 9e7af67e9521fb5cbb5b01aca22921c313c2e48e (git)
Affected: 5.10.27 , < 5.10.43 (semver)
Affected: 5.11.11 , < 5.12 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.43 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.12.10 , ≤ 5.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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