CVE-2021-47364
kernel: comedi: Fix memory leak in compat_insnlist()
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · May 21, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
comedi: Fix memory leak in compat_insnlist()
compat_insnlist() handles the 32-bit version of the COMEDI_INSNLIST
ioctl (whenwhen CONFIG_COMPAT is enabled). It allocates memory to
temporarily hold an array of struct comedi_insn converted from the
32-bit version in user space. This memory is only being freed if there
is a fault while filling the array, otherwise it is leaked.
Add a call to kfree() to fix the leak.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime