CVE-2021-47479

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El problema estaba en la condici\u00f3n de ejecuci\u00f3n entre la devoluci\u00f3n de llamada r871xu_dev_remove() ->ndo_open(). Es f\u00e1cil ver en el registro de fallos que el controlador accede al firmware lanzado en la devoluci\u00f3n de llamada ->ndo_open(). Puede suceder, ya que el controlador estaba lanzando el firmware _antes_ de cancelar el registro de netdev. Solucionarlo moviendo unregister_netdev() antes de limpiar los recursos. Traza de llamada: ... 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{"bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: staging: rtl8712: fix use-after-free in rtl8712_dl_fw", "id": "2282944", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282944"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "6.0", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-416", "details": ["In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nstaging: rtl8712: fix use-after-free in rtl8712_dl_fw\nSyzbot reported use-after-free in rtl8712_dl_fw(). The problem was in\nrace condition between r871xu_dev_remove() ->ndo_open() callback.\nIt's easy to see from crash log, that driver accesses released firmware\nin ->ndo_open() callback. It may happen, since driver was releasing\nfirmware _before_ unregistering netdev. Fix it by moving\nunregister_netdev() before cleaning up resources.\nCall Trace:\n...\nrtl871x_open_fw drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c:83 [inline]\nrtl8712_dl_fw+0xd95/0xe10 drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c:170\nrtl8712_hal_init drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c:330 [inline]\nrtl871x_hal_init+0xae/0x180 drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c:394\nnetdev_open+0xe6/0x6c0 drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c:380\n__dev_open+0x2bc/0x4d0 net/core/dev.c:1484\nFreed by task 1306:\n...\nrelease_firmware+0x1b/0x30 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1053\nr871xu_dev_remove+0xcc/0x2c0 drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c:599\nusb_unbind_interface+0x1d8/0x8d0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458"], "name": "CVE-2021-47479", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2024-05-22T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47479\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47479\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024052237-CVE-2021-47479-2b82@gregkh/T"], "threat_severity": "Low"}

{"created": "2025-07-13T11:22:01.213078+00:00", "updated": "2025-07-13T11:22:01.213136+00:00", "vendors": ["linux", "linux$PRODUCT$linux_kernel"]}