CVE-2021-47644 media: staging: media: zoran: move videodev alloc

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A memory leak in the Zoran video driver allows attackers to cause a denial of service by exhausting kernel memory.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2021-47644?

CVE-2021-47644 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

media: staging: media: zoran: move videodev alloc

Move some code out of zr36057_init() and create new functions for handling zr->video_dev. This permit to ease code reading and fix a zr->video_dev memory leak.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-47644?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2021-47644?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2021-47644 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47644 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47644, GHSA-ph6v-g2hj-4q74, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47644.

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