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CVE-2021-47070

kernel: uio_hv_generic: Fix another memory leak in error handling paths

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 3.1

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Published · March 1, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

uio_hv_generic: Fix another memory leak in error handling paths

Memory allocated by 'vmbus_alloc_ring()' at the beginning of the probe function is never freed in the error handling path.

Add the missing 'vmbus_free_ring()' call.

Note that it is already freed in the .remove function.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 4.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE-402 · Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak')