FKIE_CVE-2021-47529

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-05-24 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: 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.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4768935c25403ba96e7a745645df24a51a774b7ePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a571bc28326d9f3e13f5f2d9cda2883e0631b0cePatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4768935c25403ba96e7a745645df24a51a774b7ePatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a571bc28326d9f3e13f5f2d9cda2883e0631b0cePatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
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