CVE-2021-47287 (GCVE-0-2021-47287)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-21 14:34
Modified
2026-05-11 13:51
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix memory leak when driver_register() fail If driver_register() returns with error we need to free the memory allocated for auxdrv->driver.name before returning from __auxiliary_driver_register()
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Linux Linux Version: 7de3697e9cbd4bd3d62bafa249d57990e1b8f294
Version: 7de3697e9cbd4bd3d62bafa249d57990e1b8f294
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