CVE-2021-47524: 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: serial: liteuart: fix minor-number leak on probe errors Make sure to release the allocated minor number before returning on probe errors.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.11, before 5.15.7 (fixed in 5.15.7); version 5.16 only

Published 2024-05-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.