CVE-2021-47074 (GCVE-0-2021-47074)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-01 21:15 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:47
VLAI
Title
nvme-loop: fix memory leak in nvme_loop_create_ctrl()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-loop: fix memory leak in nvme_loop_create_ctrl() When creating loop ctrl in nvme_loop_create_ctrl(), if nvme_init_ctrl() fails, the loop ctrl should be freed before jumping to the "out" label.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-15 19:25 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 3a85a5de29ea779634ddfd768059e06196687aba , < 9c980795ccd77e8abec33dd6fe28dfe1c4083e65 (git)
Affected: 3a85a5de29ea779634ddfd768059e06196687aba , < 551ba08d4b7eb26f75758cdb9f15105b276517ad (git)
Affected: 3a85a5de29ea779634ddfd768059e06196687aba , < 03504e3b54cc8118cc26c064e60a0b00c2308708 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.40 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.12.7 , ≤ 5.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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