CVE-2021-47525 serial: liteuart: fix use-after-free and memleak on unbind

2024-05-2415:09:37

Linux

www.cve.org

cve-2021-47525

liteuart

use-after-free

memleak

unbind

driver

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.1%

JSON

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

serial: liteuart: fix use-after-free and memleak on unbind

Deregister the port when unbinding the driver to prevent it from being
used after releasing the driver data and leaking memory allocated by
serial core.

CNA Affected

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  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "1da81e5562fa",
        "lessThan": "602824cf9aa9",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "1da81e5562fa",
        "lessThan": "05f929b395de",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "5.11",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "5.11",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.15.7",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.16",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]