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GHSA-XWJ2-C9HW-P6P6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-05-22 09:31 – Updated: 2025-01-07 21:30

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm, slub: fix potential memoryleak in kmem_cache_open()

In error path, the random_seq of slub cache might be leaked. Fix this by using __kmem_cache_release() to release all the relevant resources.

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2021-47466 (GCVE-0-2021-47466)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-22 06:23 – Updated: 2025-05-04 07:11

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, slub: fix potential memoryleak in kmem_cache_open() In error path, the random_seq of slub cache might be leaked. Fix this by using __kmem_cache_release() to release all the relevant resources.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f5d1c29cfab5cb0a…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/568f906340b43120a…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42b81946e3ac9ea03…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9037c57681d25e4dc…

Impacted products

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Linux

Affected: 210e7a43fa905bccafa9bb5966fba1d71f33eb8b , < 4f5d1c29cfab5cb0ab885059818751bdef32e2bb (git)
Affected: 210e7a43fa905bccafa9bb5966fba1d71f33eb8b , < 568f906340b43120abd6fcc67c37396482f85930 (git)
Affected: 210e7a43fa905bccafa9bb5966fba1d71f33eb8b , < 42b81946e3ac9ea0372ba16e05160dc11e02694f (git)
Affected: 210e7a43fa905bccafa9bb5966fba1d71f33eb8b , < 9037c57681d25e4dcc442d940d6dbe24dd31f461 (git)

Linux

Affected: 4.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.156 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.76 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.14.15 , ≤ 5.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2021-47466 (GCVE-0-2021-47466)

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