Vulnerability CVE-2021-47367


Published: 2024-05-21

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

virtio-net: fix pages leaking when building skb in big mode

We try to use build_skb() if we had sufficient tailroom. But we forget
to release the unused pages chained via private in big mode which will
leak pages. Fixing this by release the pages after building the skb in
big mode.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f020bb63b5d2e5576acadd10e158fe3b04af67ba
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afd92d82c9d715fb97565408755acad81573591a

Copyright 2026, cxsecurity.com

 

Back to Top