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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2021-47133 json

HID: amd_sfh: Fix memory leak in amd_sfh_work

published 2024-03-15 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-33781

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: amd_sfh: Fix memory leak in amd_sfh_work

Kmemleak tool detected a memory leak in the amd_sfh driver.

==================== unreferenced object 0xffff88810228ada0 (size 32): comm "insmod", pid 3968, jiffies 4295056001 (age 775.792s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 20 73 1f 81 88 ff ff 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de . s............. 22 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 01 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 "............... backtrace: [<000000007b4c8799>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x163/0x4f0 [<0000000005326893>] amd_sfh_get_report+0xa4/0x1d0 [amd_sfh] [<000000002a9e5ec4>] amdtp_hid_request+0x62/0x80 [amd_sfh] [<00000000b8a95807>] sensor_hub_get_feature+0x145/0x270 [hid_sensor_hub] [<00000000fda054ee>] hid_sensor_parse_common_attributes+0x215/0x460 [hid_sensor_iio_common] [<0000000021279ecf>] hid_accel_3d_probe+0xff/0x4a0 [hid_sensor_accel_3d] [<00000000915760ce>] platform_probe+0x6a/0xd0 [<0000000060258a1f>] really_probe+0x192/0x620 [<00000000fa812f2d>] driver_probe_device+0x14a/0x1d0 [<000000005e79f7fd>] __device_attach_driver+0xbd/0x110 [<0000000070d15018>] bus_for_each_drv+0xfd/0x160 [<0000000013a3c312>] __device_attach+0x18b/0x220 [<000000008c7b4afc>] device_initial_probe+0x13/0x20 [<00000000e6e99665>] bus_probe_device+0xfe/0x120 [<00000000833fa90b>] device_add+0x6a6/0xe00 [<00000000fa901078>] platform_device_add+0x180/0x380 ====================

The fix is to freeing request_list entry once the processed entry is removed from the request_list.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.12.10, 5.13

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-47133 updated cvss 4.4

kernel: HID: amd_sfh: Fix memory leak in amd_sfh_work

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
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References

Sources

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