# 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-2021-47024"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-28T08:13:36.489Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:19:08.243Z"
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-2021-47024"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47024.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47024"
title: "vsock/virtio: free queued packets when closing socket"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvsock/virtio: free queued packets when closing socket\n\nAs reported by syzbot [1], there is a memory leak while closing the\nsocket. We partially solved this issue with commit ac03046ece2b\n(\"vsock/virtio: free packets during the socket release\"), but we\nforgot to drain the RX queue when the socket is definitely closed by\nthe scheduled work.\n\nTo avoid future issues, let's use the new virtio_transport_remove_sock()\nto drain the RX queue before removing the socket from the af_vsock lists\ncalling vsock_remove_sock().\n\n[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=24452624fc4c571eedd9"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ac03046ece2b158ebd204dfc4896fd9f39f0e6c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b605673b523fe33abeafb2136759bcbc9c1e6ebf"},{"version":"ac03046ece2b158ebd204dfc4896fd9f39f0e6c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27691665145e74a45034a9dccf1150cf1894763a"},{"version":"ac03046ece2b158ebd204dfc4896fd9f39f0e6c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37c38674ef2f8d7e8629e5d433c37d6c1273d16b"},{"version":"ac03046ece2b158ebd204dfc4896fd9f39f0e6c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8432b8114957235f42e070a16118a7f750de9d39"},{"version":"4ea082cd3c400cd5bb36a7beb7e441bf3e29350d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4e539fa2dec4db3405e47002f2878aa4a99eb68b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4af8a327aeba102aaa9b78f3451f725bc590b237","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"51adb8ebe8c1d80528fc2ea863cfea9d32d2c52b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"7d29c9ad0ed525c1b10e29cfca4fb1eece1e93fb","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.9.179","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.122","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.46","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.0.19","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.1"},{"version":"5.1.5","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"},{"version":"5.10.37","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.11.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.11.*"},{"version":"5.12.4","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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