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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 21, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

virtio-net: fix pages leaking when building skb in big mode

CVE-2021-47367

Description

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

virtio-net: fix pages leaking when building skb in big mode

We try to use build_skb() if we had sufficient tailroom. But we forget to release the unused pages chained via private in big mode which will leak pages. Fixing this by release the pages after building the skb in big mode.

Affected products

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