vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6938-1 (CVE-2021-46932): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/27/2024
Added
08/01/2024
Modified
01/28/2025

Description

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

Input: appletouch - initialize work before device registration

Syzbot has reported warning in __flush_work(). This warning is caused by
work->func == NULL, which means missing work initialization.

This may happen, since input_dev->close() calls
cancel_work_sync(&dev->work), but dev->work initalization happens _after_
input_register_device() call.

So this patch moves dev->work initialization before registering input
device

Solution(s)

ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1134-awsubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1135-kvmubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1172-awsubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-257-genericubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-257-lowlatencyubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-awsubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-genericubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lts-xenialubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvmubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatencyubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-lts-xenialubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtualubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-lts-xenial
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