{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47455 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2021-47455 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 22 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-47455 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-47455 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 22 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47455 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47455/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47455/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-47455","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47455/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-47455","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47455","GHSA-2r2x-3jh4-chhv","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2021-47455","UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47455"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel PTP driver allows attackers to cause denial of service by triggering error paths that fail to free allocated memory.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-401","name":"Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nptp: Fix possible memory leak in ptp_clock_register()\n\nI got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff88800906c618 (size 8):\n  comm \"i2c-idt82p33931\", pid 4421, jiffies 4294948083 (age 13.188s)\n  hex dump (first 8 bytes):\n    70 74 70 30 00 00 00 00                          ptp0....\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c00000000312ed458\u003e] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x19f/0x3a0\n    [\u003c0000000079f6e2ff\u003e] kvasprintf+0xb5/0x150\n    [\u003c0000000026aae54f\u003e] kvasprintf_const+0x60/0x190\n    [\u003c00000000f323a5f7\u003e] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150\n    [\u003c000000004e35abdd\u003e] dev_set_name+0xc0/0x100\n    [\u003c00000000f20cfe25\u003e] ptp_clock_register+0x9f4/0xd30 [ptp]\n    [\u003c000000008bb9f0de\u003e] idt82p33_probe.cold+0x8b6/0x1561 [ptp_idt82p33]\n\nWhen posix_clock_register() returns an error, the name allocated\nin dev_set_name() will be leaked, the put_device() should be used\nto give up the device reference, then the name will be freed in\nkobject_cleanup() and other memory will be freed in ptp_clock_release().","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ptp: Fix possible memory leak in ptp_clock_register()","id":"CVE-2021-47455","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"can: peak_pci: peak_pci_remove(): fix UAF","id":"CVE-2021-47456"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"powerpc/smp: do not decrement idle task preempt count in CPU offline","id":"CVE-2021-47454"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-05-22","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-23","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel PTP driver allows attackers to cause denial of service by triggering error paths that fail to free allocated memory.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47455/"}