vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-47367: kernel: virtio-net: fix pages leaking when building skb in big mode

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 21, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

virtio-net: fix pages leaking when building skb in big mode

We try to use build_skb() if we had sufficient tailroom. But we forget
to release the unused pages chained via private in big mode which will
leak pages. Fixing this by release the pages after building the skb in
big mode.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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