Microsoft security update for CVE-2021-45480
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- azl3 hyperv-daemons 6.6.35.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 hyperv-daemons 6.6.92.2-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 kernel 5.15.18.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cm1 kernel 5.10.88.1-2 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 3 updates
3 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 5.10.88.1-2 |
| — | Security Update | 5.15.18.1-1 |
| — | Security Update | 6.6.35.1-1 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2021-45480
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.5 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.15.11. There is a memory leak in the __rds_conn_create() function in net/rds/connection.c in a certain combination of circumstances.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2021-45480, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).