# 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-2021-47423"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:04:10.611Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:54:24.993Z"
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-2021-47423"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47423.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47423"
title: "drm/nouveau/debugfs: fix file release memory leak"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/nouveau/debugfs: fix file release memory leak\n\nWhen using single_open() for opening, single_release() should be\ncalled, otherwise the 'op' allocated in single_open() will be leaked."
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