CVE-2021-47281 (GCVE-0-2021-47281)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-21 14:20
Modified
2025-05-04 07:07
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: seq: Fix race of snd_seq_timer_open() The timer instance per queue is exclusive, and snd_seq_timer_open() should have managed the concurrent accesses. It looks as if it's checking the already existing timer instance at the beginning, but it's not right, because there is no protection, hence any later concurrent call of snd_seq_timer_open() may override the timer instance easily. This may result in UAF, as the leftover timer instance can keep running while the queue itself gets closed, as spotted by syzkaller recently. For avoiding the race, add a proper check at the assignment of tmr->timeri again, and return -EBUSY if it's been already registered.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/536a7646c00a0f14fee49e5e313109e5da2f6031Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83e197a8414c0ba545e7e3916ce05f836f349273Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd7d88b0874f82f7b29d1a53e574cedaf23166baPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/536a7646c00a0f14fee49e5e313109e5da2f6031Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83e197a8414c0ba545e7e3916ce05f836f349273Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd7d88b0874f82f7b29d1a53e574cedaf23166baPatch
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