CVE-2021-47171

medium
Published 2024-06-05 · Modified 2024-06-05
CVSS v3
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: fix memory leak in smsc75xx_bind Syzbot reported memory leak in smsc75xx_bind(). The problem was is non-freed memory in case of errors after memory allocation. backtrace: [<ffffffff84245b62>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:556 [inline] [<ffffffff84245b62>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:686 [inline] [<ffffffff84245b62>] smsc75xx_bind+0x7a/0x334 drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:1460 [<ffffffff82b5b2e6>] usbnet_probe+0x3b6/0xc30 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1728

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
rockylinux rocky8fixed
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.14.6-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.46-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.14.6-1
debian debiansidfixed5.14.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.14.6-1
almalinux almalinux8fixedkernel-rt-modules-4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

References

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.