# 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-2021-47082"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-04T18:06:17.081Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:45:53.877Z"
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-2021-47082"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47082.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47082"
title: "tun: avoid double free in tun_free_netdev"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntun: avoid double free in tun_free_netdev\n\nAvoid double free in tun_free_netdev() by moving the\ndev-\u003etstats and tun-\u003esecurity allocs to a new ndo_init routine\n(tun_net_init()) that will be called by register_netdevice().\nndo_init is paired with the desctructor (tun_free_netdev()),\nso if there's an error in register_netdevice() the destructor\nwill handle the frees.\n\nBUG: KASAN: double-free or invalid-free in selinux_tun_dev_free_security+0x1a/0x20 security/selinux/hooks.c:5605\n\nCPU: 0 PID: 25750 Comm: syz-executor416 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc2-syzk #1\nHardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS\nCall Trace:\n\u003cTASK\u003e\n__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\ndump_stack_lvl+0x89/0xb5 lib/dump_stack.c:106\nprint_address_description.constprop.9+0x28/0x160 mm/kasan/report.c:247\nkasan_report_invalid_free+0x55/0x80 mm/kasan/report.c:372\n____kasan_slab_free mm/kasan/common.c:346 [inline]\n__kasan_slab_free+0x107/0x120 mm/kasan/common.c:374\nkasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]\nslab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1723 [inline]\nslab_free_freelist_hook mm/slub.c:1749 [inline]\nslab_free mm/slub.c:3513 [inline]\nkfree+0xac/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:4561\nselinux_tun_dev_free_security+0x1a/0x20 security/selinux/hooks.c:5605\nsecurity_tun_dev_free_security+0x4f/0x90 security/security.c:2342\ntun_free_netdev+0xe6/0x150 drivers/net/tun.c:2215\nnetdev_run_todo+0x4df/0x840 net/core/dev.c:10627\nrtnl_unlock+0x13/0x20 net/core/rtnetlink.c:112\n__tun_chr_ioctl+0x80c/0x2870 drivers/net/tun.c:3302\ntun_chr_ioctl+0x2f/0x40 drivers/net/tun.c:3311\nvfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]\n__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline]\n__x64_sys_ioctl+0x19d/0x220 fs/ioctl.c:860\ndo_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\ndo_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"662ca437e714caaab855b12415d6ffd815985bc0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8eb43d635950e27c29f1e9e49a23b31637f37757"},{"version":"662ca437e714caaab855b12415d6ffd815985bc0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c0e566f0387490d16f166808c72e9c772027681"},{"version":"662ca437e714caaab855b12415d6ffd815985bc0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a01a4e9f5dc93335c716fa4023b1901956e8c904"},{"version":"662ca437e714caaab855b12415d6ffd815985bc0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3cb5ae77799e8ed6ec3fec0b6b4cd07f01650cc5"},{"version":"662ca437e714caaab855b12415d6ffd815985bc0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"158b515f703e75e7d68289bf4d98c664e1d632df"},{"version":"a81a02460bdf054ca0c60c5aed29941f7134092d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6fc265f7a86d81e052508d03da555188f5882c3e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.10.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.11"},{"version":"3.11.5","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.12"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.12"},{"version":"4.19.280","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.240","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.136","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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