CVE-2021-47093 (GCVE-0-2021-47093)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-04 18:10 – Updated: 2025-05-04 07:04
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Title
platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: fix memleak on registration failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: fix memleak on registration failure In case device registration fails during module initialisation, the platform device structure needs to be freed using platform_device_put() to properly free all resources (e.g. the device name).
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Linux Linux Affected: 938835aa903ae19ad62805134f79bbcf20fc3bea , < 7a37f2e370699e2feca3dca6c8178c71ceee7e8a (git)
Affected: 938835aa903ae19ad62805134f79bbcf20fc3bea , < 9ca1324755f1f8629a370af5cc315b175331f5d1 (git)
Affected: 938835aa903ae19ad62805134f79bbcf20fc3bea , < 26a8b09437804fabfb1db080d676b96c0de68e7c (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.89 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.12 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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