CVE-2021-47500

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47500
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-47500.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-47500
Downstream
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Published
2024-05-24T15:15:09Z
Modified
2025-08-09T19:01:29Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages