Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-47116 - Memory Leak vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_mb_init_backend on error path. Fix a memory leak discovered by syzbot when a file system is corrupted with an illegally large s_log_groups_per_flex.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04fb2baa0b147f51db065a1b13a11954abe592d0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04fb2baa0b147f51db065a1b13a11954abe592d0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2050c6e5b161e5e25ce3c420fef58b24fa388a49
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2050c6e5b161e5e25ce3c420fef58b24fa388a49
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8867f4e3809050571c98de7a2d465aff5e4daf5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8867f4e3809050571c98de7a2d465aff5e4daf5