CVE-2021-47644 media: staging: media: zoran: move videodev alloc
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.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47644, GHSA-ph6v-g2hj-4q74, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47644.