CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47583
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44870a9e7a3c24acbb3f888b2a7cc22c9bdf7e7f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b2d9600b31f9ba7adbc9f3c54a068615d27b390 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c6fdf62bfe1bc72bfceeaf832ef7499c7ed09ba Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96f182c9f48b984447741f054ec301fdc8517035 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b99bdf127af91d53919e96292c05f737c45ea59a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44870a9e7a3c24acbb3f888b2a7cc22c9bdf7e7f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b2d9600b31f9ba7adbc9f3c54a068615d27b390 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c6fdf62bfe1bc72bfceeaf832ef7499c7ed09ba Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96f182c9f48b984447741f054ec301fdc8517035 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b99bdf127af91d53919e96292c05f737c45ea59a Patch