# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-46956"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-27T18:46:58.101Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:45:10.978Z"
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-2021-46956"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46956.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46956"
title: "virtiofs: fix memory leak in virtio_fs_probe()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvirtiofs: fix memory leak in virtio_fs_probe()\n\nWhen accidentally passing twice the same tag to qemu, kmemleak ended up\nreporting a memory leak in virtiofs.  Also, looking at the log I saw the\nfollowing error (that's when I realised the duplicated tag):\n\n  virtiofs: probe of virtio5 failed with error -17\n\nHere's the kmemleak log for reference:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff888103d47800 (size 1024):\n  comm \"systemd-udevd\", pid 118, jiffies 4294893780 (age 18.340s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  .....N..........\n    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 80 90 02 a0 ff ff ff ff  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c000000000ebb87c1\u003e] virtio_fs_probe+0x171/0x7ae [virtiofs]\n    [\u003c00000000f8aca419\u003e] virtio_dev_probe+0x15f/0x210\n    [\u003c000000004d6baf3c\u003e] really_probe+0xea/0x430\n    [\u003c00000000a6ceeac8\u003e] device_driver_attach+0xa8/0xb0\n    [\u003c00000000196f47a7\u003e] __driver_attach+0x98/0x140\n    [\u003c000000000b20601d\u003e] bus_for_each_dev+0x7b/0xc0\n    [\u003c00000000399c7b7f\u003e] bus_add_driver+0x11b/0x1f0\n    [\u003c0000000032b09ba7\u003e] driver_register+0x8f/0xe0\n    [\u003c00000000cdd55998\u003e] 0xffffffffa002c013\n    [\u003c000000000ea196a2\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x64/0x2e0\n    [\u003c0000000008f727ce\u003e] do_init_module+0x5c/0x260\n    [\u003c000000003cdedab6\u003e] __do_sys_finit_module+0xb5/0x120\n    [\u003c00000000ad2f48c6\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40\n    [\u003c00000000809526b5\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a62a8ef9d97da23762a588592c8b8eb50a8deb6a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"310efc95c72c13faf855c692d19cd4d054d827c8"},{"version":"a62a8ef9d97da23762a588592c8b8eb50a8deb6a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d19555ff225d0896a33246a49279e6d578095f15"},{"version":"a62a8ef9d97da23762a588592c8b8eb50a8deb6a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b9d60c0eb8ada99cce2a9ab5c15dffc523b01ae"},{"version":"a62a8ef9d97da23762a588592c8b8eb50a8deb6a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5116e79fc6e6725b8acdad8b7e928a83ab7b47e6"},{"version":"a62a8ef9d97da23762a588592c8b8eb50a8deb6a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c79c5e0178922a9e092ec8fed026750f39dcaef4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4"},{"version":"5.4.118","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.11.20","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.11.*"},{"version":"5.12.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.12.*"},{"version":"5.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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