CVE-2021-47093: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.9, before 5.10.89 (fixed in 5.10.89); from 5.11, before 5.15.12 (fixed in 5.15.12); version 5.16 only

Published 2024-03-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.