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Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2021-47020

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: soundwire: stream: fix memory leak in stream config error path When stream config is failed, master runtime will release all slave runtime in the slave_rt_list, but slave runtime is not added to the list at this time. This patch frees slave runtime in the config error path to fix the memory leak.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)

'Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)' is a weakness that occurs when software doesn't effectively release allocated memory after it is used. If not addressed, this enables attackers to launch denial of service attacks (by crashing or hanging the program) or take advantage of other unexpected behavior resulting from low memory conditions.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published