CVE-2021-47529 (GCVE-0-2021-47529)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-24 15:09 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:56
VLAI
Title
iwlwifi: Fix memory leaks in error handling path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iwlwifi: Fix memory leaks in error handling path Should an error occur (invalid TLV len or memory allocation failure), the memory already allocated in 'reduce_power_data' should be freed before returning, otherwise it is leaking.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-28 15:20 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 9dad325f9d57508b154f0bebbc341a8528e5729c , < 4768935c25403ba96e7a745645df24a51a774b7e (git)
Affected: 9dad325f9d57508b154f0bebbc341a8528e5729c , < a571bc28326d9f3e13f5f2d9cda2883e0631b0ce (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.7 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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