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CVE-2021-47538

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2024-05-24 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix rxrpc_local leak in rxrpc_lookup_peer() Need to call rxrpc_put_local() for peer candidate before kfree() as it holds a ref to rxrpc_local. [DH: v2: Changed to abstract the peer freeing code out into a function]

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-401

References