CVE-2021-46956
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2021
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
virtiofs: fix memory leak in virtio_fs_probe()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtiofs: fix memory leak in virtio_fs_probe() When accidentally passing twice the same tag to qemu, kmemleak ended up reporting a memory leak in virtiofs. Also, looking at the log I saw the following error (that's when I realised the duplicated tag): virtiofs: probe of virtio5 failed with error -17 Here's the kmemleak log for reference: unreferenced object 0xffff888103d47800 (size 1024): comm "systemd-udevd", pid 118, jiffies 4294893780 (age 18.340s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N.......... ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 80 90 02 a0 ff ff ff ff ................ backtrace: [<000000000ebb87c1>] virtio_fs_probe+0x171/0x7ae [virtiofs] [<00000000f8aca419>] virtio_dev_probe+0x15f/0x210 [<000000004d6baf3c>] really_probe+0xea/0x430 [<00000000a6ceeac8>] device_driver_attach+0xa8/0xb0 [<00000000196f47a7>] __driver_attach+0x98/0x140 [<000000000b20601d>] bus_for_each_dev+0x7b/0xc0 [<00000000399c7b7f>] bus_add_driver+0x11b/0x1f0 [<0000000032b09ba7>] driver_register+0x8f/0xe0 [<00000000cdd55998>] 0xffffffffa002c013 [<000000000ea196a2>] do_one_initcall+0x64/0x2e0 [<0000000008f727ce>] do_init_module+0x5c/0x260 [<000000003cdedab6>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xb5/0x120 [<00000000ad2f48c6>] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 [<00000000809526b5>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
Scoped product and version facts
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.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a62a8ef9d97da23762a588592c8b8eb50a8deb6a | affected | git | 310efc95c72c13faf855c692d19cd4d054d827c8 | Unavailable | None listed |
| a62a8ef9d97da23762a588592c8b8eb50a8deb6a | affected | git | d19555ff225d0896a33246a49279e6d578095f15 | Unavailable | None listed |
| a62a8ef9d97da23762a588592c8b8eb50a8deb6a | affected | git | 9b9d60c0eb8ada99cce2a9ab5c15dffc523b01ae | Unavailable | None listed |
| a62a8ef9d97da23762a588592c8b8eb50a8deb6a | affected | git | 5116e79fc6e6725b8acdad8b7e928a83ab7b47e6 | Unavailable | None listed |
| a62a8ef9d97da23762a588592c8b8eb50a8deb6a | affected | git | c79c5e0178922a9e092ec8fed026750f39dcaef4 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.4 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 5.4 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.4.118 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.4.* | None listed |
| 5.10.36 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.11.20 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.11.* | None listed |
| 5.12.3 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.12.* | None listed |
| 5.13 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |