vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-47538: kernel: rxrpc: Fix rxrpc_local leak in rxrpc_lookup_peer()

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 24, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

rxrpc: Fix rxrpc_local leak in rxrpc_lookup_peer()

Need to call rxrpc_put_local() for peer candidate before kfree() as it
holds a ref to rxrpc_local.

[DH: v2: Changed to abstract the peer freeing code out into a function]

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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