vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-47177: kernel: iommu/vt-d: Fix sysfs leak in alloc_iommu()

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 25, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iommu/vt-d: Fix sysfs leak in alloc_iommu()

iommu_device_sysfs_add() is called before, so is has to be cleaned on subsequent
errors.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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