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CVE-2021-47367 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-net: fix pages leaking when building skb in…

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-net: fix pages leaking when building skb in big mode We try to use build_skb() if we had sufficient tailroom. But we forget to release the unused pages chained via private in big mode which will leak pages. Fixing this by release the pages after building the skb in big mode.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Linux 5.15 earliest → < 5.15 5.15
Linux 5.14 earliest → < 5.14.9 5.14.9
Linux 5.13 No fix stated
linux_kernel 5.14 earliest → < 5.14.9 5.14.9

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