CVE-2021-47298

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A potential memory leak has been identified in the Linux kernel, specifically in the bpf and sockmap components. The issue arises when the skb linearize function is needed but fails, potentially leading to a memory leak during error handling. To address this, the fix ensures that the msg block is freed using kfree before returning an error. This issue was discovered during a code review.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.