CVE-2021-47494

cfg80211: fix management registrations locking

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 22, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
May 22, 2024

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 6cd536fe62ef58d7c4eac2da07ab0ed7fd19010d to before 4c22227e39c7a0b4dab55617ee8d34d171fab8d4Affected
  • 6cd536fe62ef58d7c4eac2da07ab0ed7fd19010d to before 3c897f39b71fe68f90599f6a45b5f7bf5618420eAffected
  • 6cd536fe62ef58d7c4eac2da07ab0ed7fd19010d to before 09b1d5dc6ce1c9151777f6c4e128a59457704c97Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.8Affected
  • before 5.8Not affected
  • 5.10.77 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.14.16 through 5.14.*Not affected
  • 5.15 and laterNot affected

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