CVE-2021-47671 (GCVE-0-2021-47671)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-17 18:01
Modified
2026-05-11 13:58
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
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
Impacted products
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