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

NFC: st21nfca: Fix memory leak in device probe and remove

'phy->pending_skb' is alloced when device probe, but forgot to free
in the error handling path and remove path, this cause memory leak
as follows:

unreferenced object 0xffff88800bc06800 (size 512):
comm "8", pid 11775, jiffies 4295159829 (age 9.032s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<00000000d66c09ce>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x1ed/0x450
[<00000000c93382b3>] kmalloc_reserve+0x37/0xd0
[<000000005fea522c>] __alloc_skb+0x124/0x380
[<0000000019f29f9a>] st21nfca_hci_i2c_probe+0x170/0x8f2

Fix it by freeing 'pending_skb' in error and remove.
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

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History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-04T07:00:27.015Z

Reserved: 2024-02-25T13:45:52.719Z

Link: CVE-2021-46924

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T05:17:42.982Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-27T10:15:07.150

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:34:56.670

Link: CVE-2021-46924

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-02-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-46924 - Bugzilla

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