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Tracker / CVE-2021-47258

CVE-2021-47258

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: Fix error handling of scsi_host_alloc() After device is initialized via device_initialize(), or its name is set via dev_set_name(), the device has to be freed via put_device(). Otherwise device name will be leaked because it is allocated dynamically in dev_set_name(). Fix the leak by replacing kfree() with put_device(). Since scsi_host_dev_release() properly handles IDA and kthread removal, remove special-casing these from the error handling as well.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.9.273
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.237
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.195
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.126
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.12.11
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.44

Analysis

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