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debiancveDebian Security Bug TrackerDEBIANCVE:CVE-2021-47416
HistoryMay 21, 2024 - 3:15 p.m.

CVE-2021-47416

2024-05-2115:15:27
Debian Security Bug Tracker
security-tracker.debian.org
9
linux kernel
vulnerability
cve-2021-47416
memory leak
mdio bus interface

AI Score

7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0

Percentile

13.0%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy: mdio: fix memory leak Syzbot reported memory leak in MDIO bus interface, the problem was in wrong state logic. MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED indicates 2 states: 1. Bus is only allocated 2. Bus allocated and __mdiobus_register() fails, but device_register() was called In case of device_register() has been called we should call put_device() to correctly free the memory allocated for this device, but mdiobus_free() calls just kfree(dev) in case of MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED state To avoid this behaviour we need to set bus->state to MDIOBUS_UNREGISTERED before calling device_register(), because put_device() should be called even in case of device_register() failure.

AI Score

7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0

Percentile

13.0%