5.5

CVE-2021-47298

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf, sockmap: Fix potential memory leak on unlikely error case

If skb_linearize is needed and fails we could leak a msg on the error
handling. To fix ensure we kfree the msg block before returning error.
Found during code review.
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.10 < 5.10.54
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.13.6
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version5.14 Updaterc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version5.14 Updaterc2
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.09% 0.271
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.