CVE-2021-47296: 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: KVM: PPC: Fix kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl vcpu_load leak vcpu_put is not called if the user copy fails. This can result in preempt notifier corruption and crashes, among other issues.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.18, before 4.19.199 (fixed in 4.19.199); from 4.20, before 5.4.136 (fixed in 5.4.136); from 5.5, before 5.10.54 (fixed in 5.10.54); from 5.11, before 5.13.6 (fixed in 5.13.6); version 5.14 only

Published 2024-05-21. Last modified 2026-08-04.