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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2021-47171) ELSA-2024-3618: kernel update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2021-47171) ELSA-2024-3618: kernel update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/25/2024
Created
06/07/2024
Added
06/06/2024
Modified
06/06/2024

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:

[<ffffffff84245b62>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:556 [inline]

[<ffffffff84245b62>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:686 [inline]

[<ffffffff84245b62>] smsc75xx_bind+0x7a/0x334 drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:1460

[<ffffffff82b5b2e6>] usbnet_probe+0x3b6/0xc30 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1728

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel

References

  • ELSA-2024-3618
  • CVE-2021-47171

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