# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-46924"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-27T09:43:54.792Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:44:32.039Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:36.661Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46924"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46924.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46924"
title: "NFC: st21nfca: Fix memory leak in device probe and remove"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNFC: st21nfca: Fix memory leak in device probe and remove\n\n'phy-\u003epending_skb' is alloced when device probe, but forgot to free\nin the error handling path and remove path, this cause memory leak\nas follows:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff88800bc06800 (size 512):\n  comm \"8\", pid 11775, jiffies 4295159829 (age 9.032s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c00000000d66c09ce\u003e] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x1ed/0x450\n    [\u003c00000000c93382b3\u003e] kmalloc_reserve+0x37/0xd0\n    [\u003c000000005fea522c\u003e] __alloc_skb+0x124/0x380\n    [\u003c0000000019f29f9a\u003e] st21nfca_hci_i2c_probe+0x170/0x8f2\n\nFix it by freeing 'pending_skb' in error and remove."
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