CVE-2021-45480

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.15.11. There is a memory leak in the __rds_conn_create() function in net/rds/connection.c in a certain combination of circumstances.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5050

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5f9562ebe710c307adc5f666bf1a2162ee7977c0

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.15.11

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-12-24

Updated: 2022-04-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H