# 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-2021-47253"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T14:19:48.825Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-11T02:05:12.342Z"
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-2021-47253"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47253.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47253"
title: "drm/amd/display: Fix potential memory leak in DMUB hw_init"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/amd/display: Fix potential memory leak in DMUB hw_init\n\n[Why]\nOn resume we perform DMUB hw_init which allocates memory:\ndm_resume-\u003edm_dmub_hw_init-\u003edc_dmub_srv_create-\u003ekzalloc\nThat results in memory leak in suspend/resume scenarios.\n\n[How]\nAllocate memory for the DC wrapper to DMUB only if it was not\nallocated before.\nNo need to reallocate it on suspend/resume."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8c7aea404d55dabc71df792c850aed5536ece2fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e8c2af010463197315fa54a6c17e74988b5259c"},{"version":"8c7aea404d55dabc71df792c850aed5536ece2fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aa000f828e60ac15d6340f606ec4a673966f5b0b"},{"version":"8c7aea404d55dabc71df792c850aed5536ece2fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c5699e2d863f58221044efdc3fa712dd32d55cde"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"},{"version":"5.10.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.12.12","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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