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CVE-2021-47171

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 0.24%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2024-03-25 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. It affects Linux.

CVE
CVE-2021-47171
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.24%
Linux

Original NVD Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: fix memory leak in smsc75xx_bind Syzbot reported memory leak in smsc75xx_bind(). The problem was is non-freed memory in case of errors after memory allocation. backtrace: [<ffffffff84245b62>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:556 [inline] [<ffffffff84245b62>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:686 [inline] [<ffffffff84245b62>] smsc75xx_bind+0x7a/0x334 drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:1460 [<ffffffff82b5b2e6>] usbnet_probe+0x3b6/0xc30 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1728

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