CVE-2021-47287: 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: driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix memory leak when driver_register() fail If driver_register() returns with error we need to free the memory allocated for auxdrv->driver.name before returning from __auxiliary_driver_register()

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.11, before 5.13.6 (fixed in 5.13.6); version 5.14 only

Published 2024-05-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.