FKIE_CVE-2021-47298

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-05-21 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:17
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: 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.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c508a1c6c62793dc6e6872cad4b200097bab7c9Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/715f378f42909c401ec043f5150c4fdf57fb8889Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e6b27a69167f97c56b5437871d29e9722c3e470Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c508a1c6c62793dc6e6872cad4b200097bab7c9Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/715f378f42909c401ec043f5150c4fdf57fb8889Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e6b27a69167f97c56b5437871d29e9722c3e470Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 5.14
linux linux_kernel 5.14
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