FKIE_CVE-2021-47116

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-03-15 21:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:16
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04fb2baa0b147f51db065a1b13a11954abe592d0Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2050c6e5b161e5e25ce3c420fef58b24fa388a49Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8867f4e3809050571c98de7a2d465aff5e4daf5Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04fb2baa0b147f51db065a1b13a11954abe592d0Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2050c6e5b161e5e25ce3c420fef58b24fa388a49Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8867f4e3809050571c98de7a2d465aff5e4daf5Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 5.13
linux linux_kernel 5.13
linux linux_kernel 5.13
linux linux_kernel 5.13
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