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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 15, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-47116

CVE-2021-47116

Description

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

ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_mb_init_backend on error path.

Fix a memory leak discovered by syzbot when a file system is corrupted with an illegally large s_log_groups_per_flex.

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Affected products

7

Linux/Kernelcpe-rescue7 versions
5.12+ 6 more
- (no CPE)range: 5.12
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <5.10.43
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)

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