CVE-2021-47070

uio_hv_generic: Fix another memory leak in error handling paths

Medium · published March 1, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

uio_hv_generic: Fix another memory leak in error handling paths

Memory allocated by 'vmbus_alloc_ring()' at the beginning of the probe

function is never freed in the error handling path.

Add the missing 'vmbus_free_ring()' call.

Note that it is already freed in the .remove function.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00228 · 12.9th percentile
Published
2024-03-01T21:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAR 21:15Z
    uio_hv_generic: Fix another memory leak in error handling paths
    cvelistv5