CVE-2021-46944: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: staging/intel-ipu3: Fix memory leak in imu_fmt We are losing the reference to an allocated memory if try. Change the order of the check to avoid that.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.2.0, before 5.4.118 (fixed in 5.4.118); from 5.5.0, before 5.10.36 (fixed in 5.10.36); from 5.11.0, before 5.11.20 (fixed in 5.11.20); from 5.12.0, before 5.12.3 (fixed in 5.12.3)

Published 2024-02-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.