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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 24, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

rxrpc: Fix rxrpc_local leak in rxrpc_lookup_peer()

CVE-2021-47538

Description

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

rxrpc: Fix rxrpc_local leak in rxrpc_lookup_peer()

Need to call rxrpc_put_local() for peer candidate before kfree() as it holds a ref to rxrpc_local.

[DH: v2: Changed to abstract the peer freeing code out into a function]

Affected products

115

Patches

0

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