5.5

CVE-2021-47455

ptp: Fix possible memory leak in ptp_clock_register()

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

ptp: Fix possible memory leak in ptp_clock_register()

I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:

unreferenced object 0xffff88800906c618 (size 8):
  comm "i2c-idt82p33931", pid 4421, jiffies 4294948083 (age 13.188s)
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    70 74 70 30 00 00 00 00                          ptp0....
  backtrace:
    [<00000000312ed458>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x19f/0x3a0
    [<0000000079f6e2ff>] kvasprintf+0xb5/0x150
    [<0000000026aae54f>] kvasprintf_const+0x60/0x190
    [<00000000f323a5f7>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150
    [<000000004e35abdd>] dev_set_name+0xc0/0x100
    [<00000000f20cfe25>] ptp_clock_register+0x9f4/0xd30 [ptp]
    [<000000008bb9f0de>] idt82p33_probe.cold+0x8b6/0x1561 [ptp_idt82p33]

When posix_clock_register() returns an error, the name allocated
in dev_set_name() will be leaked, the put_device() should be used
to give up the device reference, then the name will be freed in
kobject_cleanup() and other memory will be freed in ptp_clock_release().
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 3.16.83 < 3.17
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.4.224 < 4.5
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.9.224 < 4.10
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.14.162 < 4.15
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.19.93 < 4.20
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.4.8 < 5.14.15
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.24% 0.144
CVSS Metriken
Quelle 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, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4225fea1cb28370086e17e82c0f69bec2779dca0
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95c0a0c5ec8839f8f21672be786e87a100319ca8
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1c96d8085588e1b997a96214b409ac3be20b524
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html