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Fencer Vulns
high 8.4

CVE-2021-47313 json

cpufreq: CPPC: Fix potential memleak in cppc_cpufreq_cpu_init

published 2024-05-21 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-34318

cvss
8.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 17%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

cpufreq: CPPC: Fix potential memleak in cppc_cpufreq_cpu_init

It's a classic example of memleak, we allocate something, we fail and never free the resources.

Make sure we free all resources on policy ->init() failures.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.12.19, 5.13.4, 5.14
  • linux linux_kernel b77538335575, e1b2b2b61d30, fe2535a44904
  • kernel RHEL 8 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8
  • perf RHEL 8 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8
  • bpftool RHEL 8 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8
  • kernel-core RHEL 8 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8
  • kernel-tools RHEL 8 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8
  • python3-perf RHEL 8 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8
  • kernel-modules RHEL 8 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8
  • kernel-zfcpdump RHEL 8 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2022:7683

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-2021-47313 updated cvss 6.1

kernel: cpufreq: CPPC: Fix potential memleak in cppc_cpufreq_cpu_init

  • 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 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-kvm, kernel-rt-core, kernel-rt-modules, kernel-rt-debug-kvm, kernel-rt-debug-core, +6 more
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8, kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8, kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) perf 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8, kernel 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8, bpftool 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8, kernel-core 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8, kernel-tools 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8, python3-perf 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8, +15 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:7683
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more 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
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux
  • linux linux_kernel

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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