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CVE-2021-46924

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

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 68957303f44a501af5cf37913208a2acaa6bcdf1 before 38c3e320e7ff46f2dc67bc5045333e63d9f8918d; affected 68957303f44a501af5cf37913208a2acaa6bcdf1 before a1e0080a35a16ce3808f7040fe0c3a8fdb052349; affected 68957303f44a501af5cf37913208a2acaa6bcdf1 before 1cd4063dbc91cf7965d73a6a3855e2028cd4613b; affected 68957303f44a501af5cf37913208a2acaa6bcdf1 before e553265ea56482da5700f56319fda9ff53e7dcb4; affected 68957303f44a501af5cf37913208a2acaa6bcdf1 before 238920381b8925d070d32d73cd9ce52ab29896fe; affected 68957303f44a501af5cf37913208a2acaa6bcdf1 before 1b9dadba502234eea7244879b8d5d126bfaf9f0c
Linux / Linuxaffected 3.16; unaffected 0 before 3.16; unaffected 4.14.261 through 4.14.*; unaffected 4.19.224 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.170 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.90 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.13 through 5.15.*; unaffected 5.16 through *

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