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FKIE_CVE-2021-47287

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-05-21 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:17
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix memory leak when driver_register() fail If driver_register() returns with error we need to free the memory allocated for auxdrv->driver.name before returning from __auxiliary_driver_register()
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4afa0c22eed33cfe0c590742387f0d16f32412f3Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce5b3de58fc21303722df46551f7eb9a91afb409Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4afa0c22eed33cfe0c590742387f0d16f32412f3Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce5b3de58fc21303722df46551f7eb9a91afb409Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 5.14
linux linux_kernel 5.14
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