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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-47330): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 21, 2024
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

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

tty: serial: 8250: serial_cs: Fix a memory leak in error handling path

In the probe function, if the final 'serial_config()' fails, 'info' is
leaking.

Add a resource handling path to free this memory.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1119-fipsubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1149-awsubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1150-kvmubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1187-awsubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-274-genericubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-274-lowlatencyubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-awsubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-fipsubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-genericubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lts-xenialubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvmubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatencyubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-lts-xenialubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtualubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-lts-xenial

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