CVE-2021-47583: Use of Uninitialized Resource

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: mxl111sf: change mutexinit location Syzbot reported, that mxl111sfctrlmsg uses uninitialized mutex. The problem was in wrong mutexinit location. Previous mutexinit&state-msglock call was in -init function, but dvbusbv2init...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from the use of an uninitialized mutex lock in the mxl111sfctrlmsg function...