CVE-2021-47660 (GCVE-0-2021-47660)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:05 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:58
VLAI
Title
fs/ntfs3: Fix some memory leaks in an error handling path of 'log_replay()'
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Fix some memory leaks in an error handling path of 'log_replay()' All error handling paths lead to 'out' where many resources are freed. Do it as well here instead of a direct return, otherwise 'log', 'ra' and 'log->one_page_buf' (at least) will leak.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445 , < d8be98ab88250dc12a98efdb703792a537b0eac3 (git)
Affected: b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445 , < bc4a1d384a04c6dba9312e1421a9f9f7c03339a4 (git)
Affected: b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445 , < 2c97519ed6b4239594c58ddacf3d0d576cf070cc (git)
Affected: b46acd6a6a627d876898e1c84d3f84902264b445 , < e589f9b7078e1c0191613cd736f598e81d2390de (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.46 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.14 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.3 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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