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CVE-2021-47494

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CVE-2021-47494

Published: May 22, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
6cd536fe62ef58d7c4eac2da07ab0ed7fd19010d - < 4c22227e39c7a0b4dab55617ee8d34d171fab8d4
affected
6cd536fe62ef58d7c4eac2da07ab0ed7fd19010d - < 3c897f39b71fe68f90599f6a45b5f7bf5618420e
affected
6cd536fe62ef58d7c4eac2da07ab0ed7fd19010d - < 09b1d5dc6ce1c9151777f6c4e128a59457704c97

Linux

Linux

affected
5.8
unaffected
0 - < 5.8
unaffected
5.10.77 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.14.16 - <= 5.14.*
unaffected
5.15 - <= *

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