cve-2021-46968
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-27 18:47
Modified
2024-11-04 11:56
Severity ?
Summary
s390/zcrypt: fix zcard and zqueue hot-unplug memleak
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/026499a9c2e002e621ad568d1378324ae97e5524
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/055a063a18bcd19b93709e3eac8078d6b2f04599
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70fac8088cfad9f3b379c9082832b4d7532c16c2
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/971dc8706cee47393d393905d294ea47e39503d3
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 5.10
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