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Tracker / CVE-2021-47466

CVE-2021-47466

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, slub: fix potential memoryleak in kmem_cache_open() In error path, the random_seq of slub cache might be leaked. Fix this by using __kmem_cache_release() to release all the relevant resources.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 4.8 → 5.4.156
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.14.15
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.76

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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