CVE-2021-47053: 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: crypto: sun8i-ss - Fix memory leak of pad It appears there are several failure return paths that don't seem to be free'ing pad. Fix these. Addresses-Coverity: ("Resource leak")

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.10, before 5.10.37 (fixed in 5.10.37); from 5.11, before 5.11.21 (fixed in 5.11.21); from 5.12, before 5.12.4 (fixed in 5.12.4)

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