CVE-2021-46996: 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: netfilter: nftables: Fix a memleak from userdata error path in new objects Release object name if userdata allocation fails.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.10, before 5.10.38 (fixed in 5.10.38); from 5.11, before 5.11.22 (fixed in 5.11.22); from 5.12, before 5.12.5 (fixed in 5.12.5)

Published 2024-02-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.