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medium 5.5

CVE-2021-47029 json

mt76: connac: fix kernel warning adding monitor interface

published 2024-02-28 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-33677

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 15%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

mt76: connac: fix kernel warning adding monitor interface

Fix the following kernel warning adding a monitor interface in mt76_connac_mcu_uni_add_dev routine.

[ 507.984882] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 507.989515] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3017 at mt76_connac_mcu_uni_add_dev+0x178/0x190 [mt76_connac_lib] [ 508.059379] CPU: 1 PID: 3017 Comm: ifconfig Not tainted 5.4.98 #0 [ 508.065461] Hardware name: MT7622_MT7531 RFB (DT) [ 508.070156] pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO) [ 508.074939] pc : mt76_connac_mcu_uni_add_dev+0x178/0x190 [mt76_connac_lib] [ 508.081806] lr : mt7921_eeprom_init+0x1288/0x1cb8 [mt7921e] [ 508.087367] sp : ffffffc013a33930 [ 508.090671] x29: ffffffc013a33930 x28: ffffff801e628ac0 [ 508.095973] x27: ffffff801c7f1200 x26: ffffff801c7eb008 [ 508.101275] x25: ffffff801c7eaef0 x24: ffffff801d025610 [ 508.106577] x23: ffffff801d022990 x22: ffffff801d024de8 [ 508.111879] x21: ffffff801d0226a0 x20: ffffff801c7eaee8 [ 508.117181] x19: ffffff801d0226a0 x18: 000000005d00b000 [ 508.122482] x17: 00000000ffffffff x16: 0000000000000000 [ 508.127785] x15: 0000000000000080 x14: ffffff801d704000 [ 508.133087] x13: 0000000000000040 x12: 0000000000000002 [ 508.138389] x11: 000000000000000c x10: 0000000000000000 [ 508.143691] x9 : 0000000000000020 x8 : 0000000000000001 [ 508.148992] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000 [ 508.154294] x5 : ffffff801c7eaee8 x4 : 0000000000000006 [ 508.159596] x3 : 0000000000000001 x2 : 0000000000000000 [ 508.164898] x1 : ffffff801c7eac08 x0 : ffffff801d0226a0 [ 508.170200] Call trace: [ 508.172640] mt76_connac_mcu_uni_add_dev+0x178/0x190 [mt76_connac_lib] [ 508.179159] mt7921_eeprom_init+0x1288/0x1cb8 [mt7921e] [ 508.184394] drv_add_interface+0x34/0x88 [mac80211] [ 508.189271] ieee80211_add_virtual_monitor+0xe0/0xb48 [mac80211] [ 508.195277] ieee80211_do_open+0x86c/0x918 [mac80211] [ 508.200328] ieee80211_do_open+0x900/0x918 [mac80211] [ 508.205372] __dev_open+0xcc/0x150 [ 508.208763] __dev_change_flags+0x134/0x198 [ 508.212937] dev_change_flags+0x20/0x60 [ 508.216764] devinet_ioctl+0x3e8/0x748 [ 508.220503] inet_ioctl+0x1e4/0x350 [ 508.223983] sock_do_ioctl+0x48/0x2a0 [ 508.227635] sock_ioctl+0x310/0x4f8 [ 508.231116] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa4/0xac0 [ 508.234681] ksys_ioctl+0x44/0x90 [ 508.237985] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x1c/0x48 [ 508.241901] el0_svc_common.constprop.1+0x7c/0x100 [ 508.246681] el0_svc_handler+0x18/0x20 [ 508.250421] el0_svc+0x8/0x1c8 [ 508.253465] ---[ end trace c7b90fee13d72c39 ]--- [ 508.261278] ------------[ cut here ]------------

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-2021-47029 updated cvss 2.3

kernel: mt76: connac: fix kernel warning adding monitor interface

  • 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

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% 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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