CVE-2021-47533

HIGH

Linux Kernel 5.12-5.15.6 - Use-After-Free in HVS FIFO Commit Pointer Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vc4: kms: Clear the HVS FIFO commit pointer once done Commit 9ec03d7f1ed3 ("drm/vc4: kms: Wait on previous FIFO users before a commit") introduced a wait on the previous commit done on a given HVS FIFO. However, we never cleared that pointer once done. Since drm_crtc_commit_put can free the drm_crtc_commit structure directly if we were the last user, this means that it can lead to a use-after free if we were to duplicate the state, and that stale pointer would even be copied to the new state. Set the pointer to NULL once we're done with the wait so that we don't carry over a pointer to a free'd structure.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 12.1%
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 (8)
Linux/Linux < 5.12
Linux/Linux 5.12
Linux/Linux 5.15.7 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16
Linux/Linux 9ec03d7f1ed394897891319a4dda75f52c5d292d - 2931db9a5ed219546cf2ae0546698faf78281b89
Linux/Linux 9ec03d7f1ed394897891319a4dda75f52c5d292d - d134c5ff71c7f2320fc7997f2fbbdedf0c76889a
linux/linux_kernel 5.16 rc1 (3 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.12 - 5.15.7
Published May 24, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026