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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47238" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-21T14:19:39.041Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:19:33.973Z" 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-2021-47238" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47238.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47238" title: "net: ipv4: fix memory leak in ip_mc_add1_src" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ipv4: fix memory leak in ip_mc_add1_src\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff888101bc4c00 (size 32):\n comm \"syz-executor527\", pid 360, jiffies 4294807421 (age 19.329s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ac 14 14 bb 00 00 02 00 ................\n backtrace:\n [\u003c00000000f17c5244\u003e] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:558 [inline]\n [\u003c00000000f17c5244\u003e] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:688 [inline]\n [\u003c00000000f17c5244\u003e] ip_mc_add1_src net/ipv4/igmp.c:1971 [inline]\n [\u003c00000000f17c5244\u003e] ip_mc_add_src+0x95f/0xdb0 net/ipv4/igmp.c:2095\n [\u003c000000001cb99709\u003e] ip_mc_source+0x84c/0xea0 net/ipv4/igmp.c:2416\n [\u003c0000000052cf19ed\u003e] do_ip_setsockopt net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1294 [inline]\n [\u003c0000000052cf19ed\u003e] ip_setsockopt+0x114b/0x30c0 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1423\n [\u003c00000000477edfbc\u003e] raw_setsockopt+0x13d/0x170 net/ipv4/raw.c:857\n [\u003c00000000e75ca9bb\u003e] __sys_setsockopt+0x158/0x270 net/socket.c:2117\n [\u003c00000000bdb993a8\u003e] __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2128 [inline]\n [\u003c00000000bdb993a8\u003e] __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2125 [inline]\n [\u003c00000000bdb993a8\u003e] __x64_sys_setsockopt+0xba/0x150 net/socket.c:2125\n [\u003c000000006a1ffdbd\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x40/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47\n [\u003c00000000b11467c4\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n\nIn commit 24803f38a5c0 (\"igmp: do not remove igmp souce list info when set\nlink down\"), the ip_mc_clear_src() in ip_mc_destroy_dev() was removed,\nbecause it was also called in igmpv3_clear_delrec().\n\nRough callgraph:\n\ninetdev_destroy\n-\u003e ip_mc_destroy_dev\n -\u003e igmpv3_clear_delrec\n -\u003e ip_mc_clear_src\n-\u003e RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev-\u003eip_ptr, NULL)\n\nHowever, ip_mc_clear_src() called in igmpv3_clear_delrec() doesn't\nrelease in_dev-\u003emc_list-\u003esources. And RCU_INIT_POINTER() assigns the\nNULL to dev-\u003eip_ptr. As a result, in_dev cannot be obtained through\ninetdev_by_index() and then in_dev-\u003emc_list-\u003esources cannot be released\nby ip_mc_del1_src() in the sock_close. Rough call sequence goes like:\n\nsock_close\n-\u003e __sock_release\n -\u003e inet_release\n -\u003e ip_mc_drop_socket\n -\u003e inetdev_by_index\n -\u003e ip_mc_leave_src\n -\u003e ip_mc_del_src\n -\u003e ip_mc_del1_src\n\nSo we still need to call ip_mc_clear_src() in ip_mc_destroy_dev() to free\nin_dev-\u003emc_list-\u003esources." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"24803f38a5c0b6c57ed800b47e695f9ce474bc3a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0dc13e75507faa17ac9f7562b4ef7bf8fcd78422"},{"version":"24803f38a5c0b6c57ed800b47e695f9ce474bc3a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6cff57eea3347f79f1867cc53e1093b6614138d8"},{"version":"24803f38a5c0b6c57ed800b47e695f9ce474bc3a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e28018b5c83d5073f74a6fb72eabe8370b2f501"},{"version":"24803f38a5c0b6c57ed800b47e695f9ce474bc3a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3dd2aeac2e9624cff9fa634710837e4f2e352758"},{"version":"24803f38a5c0b6c57ed800b47e695f9ce474bc3a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac31cc837cafb57a271babad8ccffbf733caa076"},{"version":"24803f38a5c0b6c57ed800b47e695f9ce474bc3a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"77de6ee73f54a9a89c0afa0bf4c53b239aa9953a"},{"version":"24803f38a5c0b6c57ed800b47e695f9ce474bc3a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d8e2973029b8b2ce477b564824431f3385c77083"},{"version":"bd1b664a19403ede448d29c87b2f23796bc7a577","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b38c6e0bd5b5e439ecebdc0df599d573c2f610f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.2.87","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.3"},{"version":"3.16.42","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"},{"version":"4.9.274","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.238","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.196","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.128","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.12.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.12.*"},{"version":"5.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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