CVE-2021-46924

NFC: st21nfca: Fix memory leak in device probe and remove

Published Feb 27, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

NFC: st21nfca: Fix memory leak in device probe and remove

'phy->pending_skb' is alloced when device probe, but forgot to free
in the error handling path and remove path, this cause memory leak
as follows:

unreferenced object 0xffff88800bc06800 (size 512):
comm "8", pid 11775, jiffies 4295159829 (age 9.032s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<00000000d66c09ce>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x1ed/0x450
[<00000000c93382b3>] kmalloc_reserve+0x37/0xd0
[<000000005fea522c>] __alloc_skb+0x124/0x380
[<0000000019f29f9a>] st21nfca_hci_i2c_probe+0x170/0x8f2

Fix it by freeing 'pending_skb' in error and remove.

Remediation

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Published
Updated
May 11, 2026, 1:44 PM
Reserved
Feb 25, 2024, 1:45 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 27, 2024, 10:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:15 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Feb 27, 2024, 12:00 AM