Bug 2348097 (CVE-2021-47654)

Summary: CVE-2021-47654 kernel: samples/landlock: Fix path_list memory leak
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:17:31 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

samples/landlock: Fix path_list memory leak

Clang static analysis reports this error

sandboxer.c:134:8: warning: Potential leak of memory
  pointed to by 'path_list'
        ret = 0;
              ^
path_list is allocated in parse_path() but never freed.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 19:19:01 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022649-CVE-2021-47654-671d@gregkh/T