# CVE-2021-47064: mt76: fix potential DMA mapping leak

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-02-29 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.10

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mt76: fix potential DMA mapping leak With buf uninitialized in mt76_dma_tx_queue_skb_raw, its field skip_unmap could potentially inherit a non-zero value from stack garbage. If this happens, it will cause DMA mappings for MCU command frames to not be unmapped after completion

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fa26701cd1fc4d932d431971efc5746325bdfce
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b68ce2856dadc0e1cb6fd21fbeb850da49efd08
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91b9548d413fda488ea853cd1b9f59b572db3a0c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4403cee6400c5f679e9c4a82b91d61aa961eccf

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