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FKIE_CVE-2021-47671

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-04-17 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:18
Severity
3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: etas_es58x: es58x_rx_err_msg(): fix memory leak in error path In es58x_rx_err_msg(), if can->do_set_mode() fails, the function directly returns without calling netif_rx(skb). This means that the skb previously allocated by alloc_can_err_skb() is not freed. In other terms, this is a memory leak. This patch simply removes the return statement in the error branch and let the function continue. Issue was found with GCC -fanalyzer, please follow the link below for details.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f389e1276a5389c92cef860c9fde8e1c802a871Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7eb0881aec26099089f12ae850aebd93190b1dfePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9447f768bc8c60623e4bb3ce65b8f4654d33a50Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
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