vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2021-47298: kernel: bpf, sockmap: Fix potential memory leak on unlikely error case
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | May 21, 2024 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 21, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf, sockmap: Fix potential memory leak on unlikely error case
If skb_linearize is needed and fails we could leak a msg on the error
handling. To fix ensure we kfree the msg block before returning error.
Found during code review.
Solution
no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
References
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