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FKIE_CVE-2021-47313

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-05-21 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:17
Severity
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: CPPC: Fix potential memleak in cppc_cpufreq_cpu_init It's a classic example of memleak, we allocate something, we fail and never free the resources. Make sure we free all resources on policy ->init() failures.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b775383355755885b19d2acef977f1ca132e80a3Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1b2b2b61d30d7ce057ec17237c217d152ed97f2Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe2535a44904a77615a3af8e8fd7dafb98fb0e1bPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b775383355755885b19d2acef977f1ca132e80a3Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1b2b2b61d30d7ce057ec17237c217d152ed97f2Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe2535a44904a77615a3af8e8fd7dafb98fb0e1bPatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
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