CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-47583

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-06-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-06-19
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-908

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: mxl111sf: change mutex_init() location Syzbot reported, that mxl111sf_ctrl_msg() uses uninitialized mutex. The problem was in wrong mutex_init() location. Previous mutex_init(&state->msg_lock) call was in ->init() function, but dvb_usbv2_init() has this order of calls: dvb_usbv2_init() dvb_usbv2_adapter_init() dvb_usbv2_adapter_frontend_init() props->frontend_attach() props->init() Since mxl111sf_* devices call mxl111sf_ctrl_msg() in ->frontend_attach() internally we need to initialize state->msg_lock before frontend_attach(). To achieve it, ->probe() call added to all mxl111sf_* devices, which will simply initiaize mutex.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.7 < 4.19.222) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.168) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.88) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.11)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness

References