Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 21, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-47298
CVE-2021-47298
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf, sockmap: Fix potential memory leak on unlikely error case
If skb_linearize is needed and fails we could leak a msg on the error handling. To fix ensure we kfree the msg block before returning error. Found during code review.
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