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CVE-2021-45095
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2021-12-16 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-200
Description
pep_sock_accept in net/phonet/pep.c in the Linux kernel through 5.15.8 has a refcount leak.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
- Linux kernel: through 5.15.8
References
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=bcd0f93353326954817a4f9fa55ec57fb38acbb0
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bcd0f93353326954817a4f9fa55ec57fb38acbb0
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5050
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=bcd0f93353326954817a4f9fa55ec57fb38acbb0
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bcd0f93353326954817a4f9fa55ec57fb38acbb0
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5050
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096
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