Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 15, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025
net: caif: fix memory leak in caif_device_notify
CVE-2021-47122
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: caif: fix memory leak in caif_device_notify
In case of caif_enroll_dev() fail, allocated link_support won't be assigned to the corresponding structure. So simply free allocated pointer in case of error
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8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3be863c11cab725add9fef4237ed4e232c3fc3bbmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bca2034b41c15b62d47a19158bb76235fd4455dmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a0e317f61094d377335547e015dd2ff12caf893mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9348c1f10932f13b299cbc8b1bd5f780751fae49mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/af2806345a37313f01b1c9f15e046745b8ee2daamitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b042e2b2039565eb8f0eb51c14fbe1ef463c8cd8mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b53558a950a89824938e9811eddfc8efcd94e1bbmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f52f4fd67264c70cd0b4ba326962ebe12d9cba94mitre
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