5.5

CVE-2021-47116

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.
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version < 5.10.43
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.12.10
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version5.13 Updaterc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version5.13 Updaterc2
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version5.13 Updaterc3
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version5.13 Updaterc4
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.02% 0.029
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.