Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 1, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-47070

Description

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

uio_hv_generic: Fix another memory leak in error handling paths

Memory allocated by 'vmbus_alloc_ring()' at the beginning of the probe function is never freed in the error handling path.

Add the missing 'vmbus_free_ring()' call.

Note that it is already freed in the .remove function.

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Affected products

Linux/Kernel5 versions
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 4 more
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=4.20,<5.12.7
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: 4.20
osv-coords89 versions
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< 5.3.18-150300.59.158.1+ 88 more
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- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.216.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150200.24.188.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150200.24.188.1.150200.9.95.3
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.59.158.1.150300.18.92.5
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CVE-2021-47070

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