cve-2021-47537
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-24 15:09
Modified
2024-11-04 12:07
Severity ?
Summary
octeontx2-af: Fix a memleak bug in rvu_mbox_init()
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c0ddef45b7e3dbe3ed073695d20faa572b7056aPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e07a097b4986afb8f925d0bb32612e1d3e88ce15Patch
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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