Lucene search

K
debiancveDebian Security Bug TrackerDEBIANCVE:CVE-2021-47494
HistoryMay 22, 2024 - 9:15 a.m.

CVE-2021-47494

2024-05-2209:15:11
Debian Security Bug Tracker
security-tracker.debian.org
11
cfg80211
management
registrations
locking
fix
cve-2021-47494
unix

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

High

EPSS

0

Percentile

15.5%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cfg80211: fix management registrations locking The management registrations locking was broken, the list was locked for each wdev, but cfg80211_mgmt_registrations_update() iterated it without holding all the correct spinlocks, causing list corruption. Rather than trying to fix it with fine-grained locking, just move the lock to the wiphy/rdev (still need the list on each wdev), we already need to hold the wdev lock to change it, so there’s no contention on the lock in any case. This trivially fixes the bug since we hold one wdev’s lock already, and now will hold the lock that protects all lists.

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

High

EPSS

0

Percentile

15.5%