Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-47171 - 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: 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
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/200dbfcad8011e50c3cec269ed7b980836eeb1fa
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/200dbfcad8011e50c3cec269ed7b980836eeb1fa
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22c840596af0c09068b6cf948616e6496e59e07f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22c840596af0c09068b6cf948616e6496e59e07f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46a8b29c6306d8bbfd92b614ef65a47c900d8e70
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46a8b29c6306d8bbfd92b614ef65a47c900d8e70
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/635ac38b36255d3cfb8312cf7c471334f4d537e0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/635ac38b36255d3cfb8312cf7c471334f4d537e0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70c886ac93f87ae7214a0c69151a28a8075dd95b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70c886ac93f87ae7214a0c69151a28a8075dd95b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e6a3eccb28779710cbbafc4f4258d92509c6d07
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e6a3eccb28779710cbbafc4f4258d92509c6d07
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e6b8c1ff9d997e1fa16cbd2d60739adf6dc1bbc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e6b8c1ff9d997e1fa16cbd2d60739adf6dc1bbc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b95fb96e6339e34694dd578fb6bde3575b01af17
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b95fb96e6339e34694dd578fb6bde3575b01af17