# CVE-2021-47655: media: venus: vdec: fixed possible memory leak issue

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-26 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.16

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: venus: vdec: fixed possible memory leak issue The venus_helper_alloc_dpb_bufs() implementation allows an early return on an error path when checking the id from ida_alloc_min() which would not release the earlier buffer allocation. Move the direct kfree() from the error checking of dma_alloc_attrs() to the common fail path to ensure that allocations are released on all error paths in this function. Addresses-Coverity: 1494120 ("Resource leak")

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cedfe8aaf1875a5305897107b7f298db4260019
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55bccafc246b2e64763a155ec454470c07a54a6e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f89d05ba93df9c2cdfe493843f93288e55e99eb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8403fdd775858a7bf04868d43daea0acbe49ddfc

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