Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 22, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

mm, slub: fix potential memoryleak in kmem_cache_open()

CVE-2021-47466

Description

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

In error path, the random_seq of slub cache might be leaked. Fix this by using __kmem_cache_release() to release all the relevant resources.

Affected products

137

osv-coords136 versions
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pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-zfcpdump&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.3
< 4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10+ 135 more
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Range: 4.8

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