CVE-2021-45480: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.15.11. There is a memory leak in the __rds_conn_create() function in net/rds/connection.c in a certain combination of circumstances.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.15.11 (fixed in 5.15.11)

Published 2021-12-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.