CVE-2021-47500 (GCVE-0-2021-47500)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-24 15:01 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
iio: mma8452: Fix trigger reference couting
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: mma8452: Fix trigger reference couting
The mma8452 driver directly assigns a trigger to the struct iio_dev. The
IIO core when done using this trigger will call `iio_trigger_put()` to drop
the reference count by 1.
Without the matching `iio_trigger_get()` in the driver the reference count
can reach 0 too early, the trigger gets freed while still in use and a
use-after-free occurs.
Fix this by getting a reference to the trigger before assigning it to the
IIO device.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 15:35 UTC
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
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(git)
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guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.2 (semver) Unaffected: 4.4.295 , ≤ 4.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.9.293 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.258 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.221 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.165 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.85 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.8 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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