CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-47437

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-05-22 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-05-22
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-667

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: adis16475: fix deadlock on frequency set With commit 39c024b51b560 ("iio: adis16475: improve sync scale mode handling"), two deadlocks were introduced: 1) The call to 'adis_write_reg_16()' was not changed to it's unlocked version. 2) The lock was not being released on the success path of the function. This change fixes both these issues.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.13 < 5.14.14) • linux linux kernel 5.15

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness

References