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FKIE_CVE-2021-47070

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-03-01 22:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:16
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: uio_hv_generic: Fix another memory leak in error handling paths Memory allocated by 'vmbus_alloc_ring()' at the beginning of the probe function is never freed in the error handling path. Add the missing 'vmbus_free_ring()' call. Note that it is already freed in the .remove function.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b0226be3a52dadd965644bc52a807961c2c26dfPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/261bbd90cc53d2835343f056770156cf1e82cf03
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f59240cf25b2f7a0fdffc2701482a70310fec07Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b0226be3a52dadd965644bc52a807961c2c26dfPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f59240cf25b2f7a0fdffc2701482a70310fec07Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 5.13
linux linux_kernel 5.13
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