Kernel crash via unsynchronized pinmux ownership update
Published Jan 11, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026
Race condition in Linux kernel pinmux code allows local users to crash the kernel by concurrently requesting the same GPIO pin. The pin_request() path increments desc->mux_usecount before setting desc->mux_owner, allowing a second request to dereference the still-NULL owner in strcmp(). Exploitation requires local low-privileged access and two clients targeting the same GPIO functionality; the documented consequence is a kernel crash.
Summary
What happened
Race condition in Linux kernel pinmux code allows local users to crash the kernel by concurrently requesting the same GPIO pin. The pin_request() path increments desc->mux_usecount before setting desc->mux_owner, allowing a second request to dereference the still-NULL owner in strcmp(). Exploitation requires local low-privileged access and two clients targeting the same GPIO functionality; the documented consequence is a kernel crash.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-47141
- Published
- Jan 11, 2025
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-667, T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Jan 11, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=3.10
- Affected versionversion=42fed7ba44e4e8c1fb27b28ad14490cb1daff3c7 <2da32aed4a97ca1d70fb8b77926f72f30ce5fb4b
- Affected versionversion=42fed7ba44e4e8c1fb27b28ad14490cb1daff3c7 <5a3e85c3c397c781393ea5fb2f45b1f60f8a4e6e
- Affected versionversion=42fed7ba44e4e8c1fb27b28ad14490cb1daff3c7 <c11e2ec9a780f54982a187ee10ffd1b810715c85
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