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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2021-47019 json

mt76: mt7921: fix possible invalid register access

published 2024-02-28 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-33667

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mt76: mt7921: fix possible invalid register access

Disable the interrupt and synchronze for the pending irq handlers to ensure the irq tasklet is not being scheduled after the suspend to avoid the possible invalid register access acts when the host pcie controller is suspended.

[17932.910534] mt7921e 0000:01:00.0: pci_pm_suspend+0x0/0x22c returned 0 after 21375 usecs [17932.910590] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: calling pci_pm_suspend+0x0/0x22c @ 18565, parent: pci0000:00 [17932.910602] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: pci_pm_suspend+0x0/0x22c returned 0 after 8 usecs [17932.910671] mtk-pcie 11230000.pcie: calling platform_pm_suspend+0x0/0x60 @ 22783, parent: soc [17932.910674] mtk-pcie 11230000.pcie: platform_pm_suspend+0x0/0x60 returned 0 after 0 usecs

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17933.615352] x1 : 00000000000d4200 x0 : ffffff8269ca2300 [17933.620666] Call trace: [17933.623127] mt76_mmio_rr+0x28/0xf0 [mt76] [17933.627234] mt7921_rr+0x38/0x44 [mt7921e] [17933.631339] mt7921_irq_tasklet+0x54/0x1d8 [mt7921e] [17933.636309] tasklet_action_common+0x12c/0x16c [17933.640754] tasklet_action+0x24/0x2c [17933.644418] __do_softirq+0x16c/0x344 [17933.648082] irq_exit+0xa8/0xac [17933.651224] scheduler_ipi+0xd4/0x148 [17933.654890] handle_IPI+0x164/0x2d4 [17933.658379] gic_handle_irq+0x140/0x178 [17933.662216] el1_irq+0xb8/0x180 [17933.665361] cpuidle_enter_state+0xf8/0x204 [17933.669544] cpuidle_enter+0x38/0x4c [17933.673122] do_idle+0x1a4/0x2a8 [17933.676352] cpu_startup_entry+0x24/0x28 [17933.680276] rest_init+0xd4/0xe0 [17933.683508] arch_call_rest_init+0x10/0x18 [17933.687606] start_kernel+0x340/0x3b4 [17933.691279] Code: aa0003f5 d503201f f953eaa8 8b344108 (b9400113) [17933.697373] ---[ end trace a24b8e26ffbda3c5 ]--- [17933.767846] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.12.4, 5.13

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-47019 updated

kernel: mt76: possible invalid register access

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

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References

Sources

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