7.8
CWE
416
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2021-47500: iio: mma8452: Fix trigger reference couting

First published: Fri May 24 2024(Updated: )

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: mma8452: Fix trigger reference couting The mma8452 driver directly assigns a trigger to the struct iio_dev. The IIO core when done using this trigger will call `iio_trigger_put()` to drop the reference count by 1. Without the matching `iio_trigger_get()` in the driver the reference count can reach 0 too early, the trigger gets freed while still in use and a use-after-free occurs. Fix this by getting a reference to the trigger before assigning it to the IIO device.

Credit: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Linux Linux kernel>=4.2<4.4.295
Linux Linux kernel>=4.5<4.9.293
Linux Linux kernel>=4.10<4.14.258
Linux Linux kernel>=4.15<4.19.221
Linux Linux kernel>=4.20<5.4.165
Linux Linux kernel>=5.5<5.10.85
Linux Linux kernel>=5.11<5.15.8
Linux Linux kernel=5.15-rc1
Linux Linux kernel=5.15-rc2
Linux Linux kernel=5.15-rc3
Linux Linux kernel=5.15-rc4

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