{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47516 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2021-47516 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 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-2021-47516 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-47516 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 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-2021-47516 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-2021-47516/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47516/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-47516","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47516/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-47516","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47516","UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47516"],"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's nfp driver can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"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\nnfp: Fix memory leak in nfp_cpp_area_cache_add()\n\nIn line 800 (#1), nfp_cpp_area_alloc() allocates and initializes a\nCPP area structure. But in line 807 (#2), when the cache is allocated\nfailed, this CPP area structure is not freed, which will result in\nmemory leak.\n\nWe can fix it by freeing the CPP area when the cache is allocated\nfailed (#2).\n\n792 int nfp_cpp_area_cache_add(struct nfp_cpp *cpp, size_t size)\n793 {\n794 \tstruct nfp_cpp_area_cache *cache;\n795 \tstruct nfp_cpp_area *area;\n\n800\tarea = nfp_cpp_area_alloc(cpp, NFP_CPP_ID(7, NFP_CPP_ACTION_RW, 0),\n801 \t\t\t\t  0, size);\n\t// #1: allocates and initializes\n\n802 \tif (!area)\n803 \t\treturn -ENOMEM;\n\n805 \tcache = kzalloc(sizeof(*cache), GFP_KERNEL);\n806 \tif (!cache)\n807 \t\treturn -ENOMEM; // #2: missing free\n\n817\treturn 0;\n818 }","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":"nfp: Fix memory leak in nfp_cpp_area_cache_add()","id":"CVE-2021-47516","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"ethtool: do not perform operations on net devices being unregistered","id":"CVE-2021-47517"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"seg6: fix the iif in the IPv6 socket control block","id":"CVE-2021-47515"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-05-24","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":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel's nfp driver can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47516/"}