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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