# 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-2021-47499"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-24T15:01:42.684Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:55:49.902Z"
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-2021-47499"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47499.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47499"
title: "iio: accel: kxcjk-1013: Fix possible memory leak in probe and remove"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: accel: kxcjk-1013: Fix possible memory leak in probe and remove\n\nWhen ACPI type is ACPI_SMO8500, the data-\u003edready_trig will not be set, the\nmemory allocated by iio_triggered_buffer_setup() will not be freed, and cause\nmemory leak as follows:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff888009551400 (size 512):\n  comm \"i2c-SMO8500-125\", pid 911, jiffies 4294911787 (age 83.852s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 e2 e5 c0 ff ff ff ff  ........ .......\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c0000000041ce75ee\u003e] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x16d/0x360\n    [\u003c000000000aeb17b0\u003e] iio_kfifo_allocate+0x41/0x130 [kfifo_buf]\n    [\u003c000000004b40c1f5\u003e] iio_triggered_buffer_setup_ext+0x2c/0x210 [industrialio_triggered_buffer]\n    [\u003c000000004375b15f\u003e] kxcjk1013_probe+0x10c3/0x1d81 [kxcjk_1013]\n\nFix it by remove data-\u003edready_trig condition in probe and remove."
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