CVE Catalog

CVE-2021-47253

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.23%

13th percentile - higher than 13% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the AMD Display Manager (DMUB) driver has a memory leak during system suspend/resume operations. The initialization function allocates memory on every resume, leading to a growing leak.

Risk Assessment

Repeated suspend/resume cycles can exhaust memory, potentially causing system instability or crashes.

Recommendation

Apply a Linux kernel update that includes the fix to allocate memory only once, not on every resume.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Fix potential memory leak in DMUB hw_init [Why] On resume we perform DMUB hw_init which allocates memory: dm_resume->dm_dmub_hw_init->dc_dmub_srv_create->kzalloc That results in memory leak in suspend/resume scenarios. [How] Allocate memory for the DC wrapper to DMUB only if it was not allocated before. No need to reallocate it on suspend/resume.

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