CVE-2021-47583
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 3.7 - Use of Uninitialized Resource in mxl111sf_ctrl_msg
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0024
EPSS Percentile
14.7%
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-908
Status
published
Products (13)
Linux/Linux
< 3.7
Linux/Linux
3.7
Linux/Linux
4.19.222 - 4.19.*
Linux/Linux
5.10.88 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux
5.15.11 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux
5.16
Linux/Linux
5.4.168 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux
8572211842afc53c8450fb470f2b8d02ba7592e0 - 44870a9e7a3c24acbb3f888b2a7cc22c9bdf7e7f
Linux/Linux
8572211842afc53c8450fb470f2b8d02ba7592e0 - 4b2d9600b31f9ba7adbc9f3c54a068615d27b390
Linux/Linux
8572211842afc53c8450fb470f2b8d02ba7592e0 - 8c6fdf62bfe1bc72bfceeaf832ef7499c7ed09ba
... and 3 more
Published
Jun 19, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026