CVE-2021-47499

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 4.2-4.4.295 - Use-After-Free in KXCJK-1013 Accelerometer Driver

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: accel: kxcjk-1013: Fix possible memory leak in probe and remove When ACPI type is ACPI_SMO8500, the data->dready_trig will not be set, the memory allocated by iio_triggered_buffer_setup() will not be freed, and cause memory leak as follows: unreferenced object 0xffff888009551400 (size 512): comm "i2c-SMO8500-125", pid 911, jiffies 4294911787 (age 83.852s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 e2 e5 c0 ff ff ff ff ........ ....... backtrace: [<0000000041ce75ee>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x16d/0x360 [<000000000aeb17b0>] iio_kfifo_allocate+0x41/0x130 [kfifo_buf] [<000000004b40c1f5>] iio_triggered_buffer_setup_ext+0x2c/0x210 [industrialio_triggered_buffer] [<000000004375b15f>] kxcjk1013_probe+0x10c3/0x1d81 [kxcjk_1013] Fix it by remove data->dready_trig condition in probe and remove.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (20)
Linux/Linux < 4.2
Linux/Linux 4.14.258 - 4.14.*
Linux/Linux 4.19.221 - 4.19.*
Linux/Linux 4.2
Linux/Linux 4.4.295 - 4.4.*
Linux/Linux 4.9.293 - 4.9.*
Linux/Linux 5.10.85 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.8 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16
Linux/Linux 5.4.165 - 5.4.*
... and 10 more
Published May 24, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026