CVE-2021-47437: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: adis16475: fix deadlock on frequency set With commit 39c024b51b560 ("iio: adis16475: improve sync scale mode handling"), two deadlocks were introduced: 1) The call to 'adis_write_reg_16()' was not changed to it's unlocked version. 2) The lock was not being released on the success path of the function. This change fixes both these issues.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.13, before 5.14.14 (fixed in 5.14.14); version 5.15 only

Published 2024-05-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.