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Tracker / CVE-2021-47583

CVE-2021-47583

Medium 5.5

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 3.7 → 4.19.222
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.168
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.11
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.88

Analysis

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