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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2021-47494

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 5/22/2024 5:15:11 AM

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Added 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.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09b1d5dc6ce1c9151777f6c4e128a59457704c97 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c897f39b71fe68f90599f6a45b5f7bf5618420e [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c22227e39c7a0b4dab55617ee8d34d171fab8d4 [No types assigned]