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CVE-2021-46924 Details

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFC: st21nfca: Fix memory leak in device probe and remove 'phy->pending_skb' is alloced when device probe, but forgot to free in the error handling path and remove path, this cause memory leak as follows: unreferenced object 0xffff88800bc06800 (size 512): comm "8", pid 11775, jiffies 4295159829 (age 9.032s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000d66c09ce>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x1ed/0x450 [<00000000c93382b3>] kmalloc_reserve+0x37/0xd0 [<000000005fea522c>] __alloc_skb+0x124/0x380 [<0000000019f29f9a>] st21nfca_hci_i2c_probe+0x170/0x8f2 Fix it by freeing 'pending_skb' in error and remove.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-401Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
linux linux kernel
>= 3.16.0, < 4.14.261
>= 4.15.0, < 4.19.224
>= 4.20.0, < 5.4.170
>= 5.5.0, < 5.10.90
>= 5.11.0, < 5.15.13

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes


QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-46924
NVD Published Date:
Feb 27, 2024
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
kernel.org