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CVE-2021-47238

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Identifier year (not publication year)
2021
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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net: ipv4: fix memory leak in ip_mc_add1_src

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv4: fix memory leak in ip_mc_add1_src BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888101bc4c00 (size 32): comm "syz-executor527", pid 360, jiffies 4294807421 (age 19.329s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ac 14 14 bb 00 00 02 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000f17c5244>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:558 [inline] [<00000000f17c5244>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:688 [inline] [<00000000f17c5244>] ip_mc_add1_src net/ipv4/igmp.c:1971 [inline] [<00000000f17c5244>] ip_mc_add_src+0x95f/0xdb0 net/ipv4/igmp.c:2095 [<000000001cb99709>] ip_mc_source+0x84c/0xea0 net/ipv4/igmp.c:2416 [<0000000052cf19ed>] do_ip_setsockopt net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1294 [inline] [<0000000052cf19ed>] ip_setsockopt+0x114b/0x30c0 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1423 [<00000000477edfbc>] raw_setsockopt+0x13d/0x170 net/ipv4/raw.c:857 [<00000000e75ca9bb>] __sys_setsockopt+0x158/0x270 net/socket.c:2117 [<00000000bdb993a8>] __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2128 [inline] [<00000000bdb993a8>] __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2125 [inline] [<00000000bdb993a8>] __x64_sys_setsockopt+0xba/0x150 net/socket.c:2125 [<000000006a1ffdbd>] do_syscall_64+0x40/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [<00000000b11467c4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae In commit 24803f38a5c0 ("igmp: do not remove igmp souce list info when set link down"), the ip_mc_clear_src() in ip_mc_destroy_dev() was removed, because it was also called in igmpv3_clear_delrec(). Rough callgraph: inetdev_destroy -> ip_mc_destroy_dev -> igmpv3_clear_delrec -> ip_mc_clear_src -> RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->ip_ptr, NULL) However, ip_mc_clear_src() called in igmpv3_clear_delrec() doesn't release in_dev->mc_list->sources. And RCU_INIT_POINTER() assigns the NULL to dev->ip_ptr. As a result, in_dev cannot be obtained through inetdev_by_index() and then in_dev->mc_list->sources cannot be released by ip_mc_del1_src() in the sock_close. Rough call sequence goes like: sock_close -> __sock_release -> inet_release -> ip_mc_drop_socket -> inetdev_by_index -> ip_mc_leave_src -> ip_mc_del_src -> ip_mc_del1_src So we still need to call ip_mc_clear_src() in ip_mc_destroy_dev() to free in_dev->mc_list->sources.

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
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
24803f38a5c0b6c57ed800b47e695f9ce474bc3aaffectedgit0dc13e75507faa17ac9f7562b4ef7bf8fcd78422UnavailableNone listed
24803f38a5c0b6c57ed800b47e695f9ce474bc3aaffectedgit6cff57eea3347f79f1867cc53e1093b6614138d8UnavailableNone listed
24803f38a5c0b6c57ed800b47e695f9ce474bc3aaffectedgit1e28018b5c83d5073f74a6fb72eabe8370b2f501UnavailableNone listed
24803f38a5c0b6c57ed800b47e695f9ce474bc3aaffectedgit3dd2aeac2e9624cff9fa634710837e4f2e352758UnavailableNone listed
24803f38a5c0b6c57ed800b47e695f9ce474bc3aaffectedgitac31cc837cafb57a271babad8ccffbf733caa076UnavailableNone listed
24803f38a5c0b6c57ed800b47e695f9ce474bc3aaffectedgit77de6ee73f54a9a89c0afa0bf4c53b239aa9953aUnavailableNone listed
24803f38a5c0b6c57ed800b47e695f9ce474bc3aaffectedgitd8e2973029b8b2ce477b564824431f3385c77083UnavailableNone listed
bd1b664a19403ede448d29c87b2f23796bc7a577affectedgitUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
b38c6e0bd5b5e439ecebdc0df599d573c2f610f8affectedgitUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
3.2.87affectedsemver3.3UnavailableNone listed
3.16.42affectedsemver3.17UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
4.9affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver4.9UnavailableNone listed
4.9.274unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.9.*None listed
4.14.238unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.14.*None listed
4.19.196unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.19.*None listed
5.4.128unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.4.*None listed
5.10.46unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.12.13unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.12.*None listed
5.13unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed