5.5

CVE-2021-47171

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
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 2.6.34 < 4.4.271
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.5 < 4.9.271
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.10 < 4.14.235
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.15 < 4.19.193
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.20 < 5.4.124
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.42
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.12.9
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.01% 0.003
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.