CVE-2021-47171
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: usb: fix memory leak in smsc75xx_bind
Syzbot reported memory leak in smsc75xx_bind().
The problem was is non-freed memory in case of
errors after memory allocation.
backtrace:
[<ffffffff84245b62>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:556 [inline]
[<ffffffff84245b62>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:686 [inline]
[<ffffffff84245b62>] smsc75xx_bind+0x7a/0x334 drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:1460
[<ffffffff82b5b2e6>] usbnet_probe+0x3b6/0xc30 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1728
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Advisory Details
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CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: March 25, 2024, Modified: May 16, 2024