CVE-2021-47125

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. The schhtb component caused reference count leaks due to inconsistent handling of NULL pointers, leading to mismatched queue pointers. Mitigation Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to...

CVE-2021-47125

CVE-2021-47125 concerns a Linux kernel local vulnerability due to a refcount leak in the HTB offload path. The root cause was an incorrect NULL handling around qdisc_refcount_inc in htb_parent_to_leaf_offload, which could leak references if new_q was NULL. The fix adds a NULL pointer check to gua...