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GHSA-4Q6W-GXHV-H434

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-02-28 09:30 – Updated: 2024-12-06 15:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nftables: Fix a memleak from userdata error path in new objects

Release object name if userdata allocation fails.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2021-46996 (GCVE-0-2021-46996)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-28 08:13 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:45

Title

netfilter: nftables: Fix a memleak from userdata error path in new objects

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: Fix a memleak from userdata error path in new objects Release object name if userdata allocation fails.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-10 16:00 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7061 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c784a500f5edd337…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59fa98bfa1f4013d6…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd3bebf515f336214…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85dfd816fabfc16e7…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: b131c96496b369c7b14125e7c50e89ac7cec8051 , < 2c784a500f5edd337258b0fdb2f31bc9abde1a23 (git) Affected: b131c96496b369c7b14125e7c50e89ac7cec8051 , < 59fa98bfa1f4013d658d990cac88c87b46ff410c (git) Affected: b131c96496b369c7b14125e7c50e89ac7cec8051 , < dd3bebf515f336214a91994348a2b86b9a1d3d7f (git) Affected: b131c96496b369c7b14125e7c50e89ac7cec8051 , < 85dfd816fabfc16e71786eda0a33a7046688b5b0 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.10 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.10 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.38 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.11.22 , ≤ 5.11.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.12.5 , ≤ 5.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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