CVE-2021-47116

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_mb_init_backend on error path. Fix a memory leak discovered by syzbot when a file system is corrupted with an illegally large s_log_groups_per_flex.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8867f4e3809050571c98de7a2d465aff5e4daf5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2050c6e5b161e5e25ce3c420fef58b24fa388a49

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04fb2baa0b147f51db065a1b13a11954abe592d0

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-03-15

Updated: 2024-03-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.8

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

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

Severity: Medium