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FKIE_CVE-2021-47420

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-05-21 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:17
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: fix a potential ttm->sg memory leak Memory is allocated for ttm->sg by kmalloc in kfd_mem_dmamap_userptr, but isn't freed by kfree in kfd_mem_dmaunmap_userptr. Free it!
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e5ce6029b627efb4a004746cfdc1eeff850e6ebPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b072ef1215aca33186e3a10109e872e528a9e516Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e5ce6029b627efb4a004746cfdc1eeff850e6ebPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b072ef1215aca33186e3a10109e872e528a9e516Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 5.15
linux linux_kernel 5.15
linux linux_kernel 5.15
linux linux_kernel 5.15
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