CVE-2021-47298 (GCVE-0-2021-47298)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-21 14:35 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:51
VLAI
Title
bpf, sockmap: Fix potential memory leak on unlikely error case
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, sockmap: Fix potential memory leak on unlikely error case If skb_linearize is needed and fails we could leak a msg on the error handling. To fix ensure we kfree the msg block before returning error. Found during code review.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-21 18:46 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4363023d2668e621b0743db351a9555d6e6ea57e , < 715f378f42909c401ec043f5150c4fdf57fb8889 (git)
Affected: 4363023d2668e621b0743db351a9555d6e6ea57e , < 6c508a1c6c62793dc6e6872cad4b200097bab7c9 (git)
Affected: 4363023d2668e621b0743db351a9555d6e6ea57e , < 7e6b27a69167f97c56b5437871d29e9722c3e470 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.54 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.13.6 , ≤ 5.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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