CVE-2021-47320: 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: nfs: fix acl memory leak of posix_acl_create() When looking into another nfs xfstests report, I found acl and default_acl in nfs3_proc_create() and nfs3_proc_mknod() error paths are possibly leaked. Fix them in advance.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.14, before 4.4.276 (fixed in 4.4.276); from 4.5, before 4.9.276 (fixed in 4.9.276); from 4.10, before 4.14.240 (fixed in 4.14.240); from 4.15, before 4.19.198 (fixed in 4.19.198); from 4.20, before 5.4.134 (fixed in 5.4.134); from 5.5, before 5.10.52 (fixed in 5.10.52); …

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