PT-2024-11460

CVE-2021-47466

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Published

2021-10-18

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Updated

2026-10-18

Description by

CVSS 3.1
5.5
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description A potential memory leak in the Linux kernel has been resolved. The issue occurred in the error path of the kmem cache open() function, where the random seq of the slub cache might be leaked. This has been fixed by using kmem cache release() to release all relevant resources.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Impacts
Researchers
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Related identifiers
ALSA-2024:7000
ALSA-2024:7001
CESA-2024_7000
CESA-2024_7001
CLSA-2024-1729874131
INFSA-2024_7000
INFSA-2024_7001
OESA-2024-1767
OPENSUSE-SU-2024_2189-1
RHSA-2024:7000
RHSA-2024_7000
RHSA-2024:7001
RHSA-2024_7001
RLSA-2024:7001
SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2011-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2019-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
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