Tracker / CVE-2024-40956
CVE-2024-40956
High 7.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: Fix possible Use-After-Free in irq_process_work_list Use list_for_each_entry_safe() to allow iterating through the list and deleting the entry in the iteration process. The descriptor is freed via idxd_desc_complete() and there's a slight chance may cause issue for the list iterator when the descriptor is reused by another thread without it being deleted from the list.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.162 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.96 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.36 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.9.7 |
Analysis
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