vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-47171: kernel: net: usb: fix memory leak in smsc75xx_bind (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 25, 2024
Added
Jun 6, 2024
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

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

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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