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CVE-2021-45480

Status: ModifiedMedium (5.5)—

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.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (2)

Debian — Debian LinuxLinux — Linux Kernel

CWEs

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