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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 25, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-47171

CVE-2021-47171

Description

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

net: usb: fix memory leak in smsc75xx_bind

Syzbot reported memory leak in smsc75xx_bind(). The problem was is non-freed memory in case of errors after memory allocation.

backtrace: [] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:556 [inline] [] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:686 [inline] [] smsc75xx_bind+0x7a/0x334 drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:1460 [] usbnet_probe+0x3b6/0xc30 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1728

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