CVE-2021-47500
HIGHLinux Kernel 4.2-4.4.295 - Use-After-Free in IIO MMA8452 Trigger Reference Counting
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0024
EPSS Percentile
15.4%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-416
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