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CVE-2021-47093

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: fix memleak on registration failure In case device registrati…

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: fix memleak on registration failure In case device registration fails during module initialisation, the platform device structure needs to be freed using platform_device_put() to properly free all resources (e.g. the device name).

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 5.9 before 5.10.89
from 5.11 before 5.15.12
Version 5.16

Weakness classification

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