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CVE-2024-56704 (GCVE-0-2024-56704)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-28 09:46 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:46
VLAI
Title
9p/xen: fix release of IRQ
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: 9p/xen: fix release of IRQ Kernel logs indicate an IRQ was double-freed. Pass correct device ID during IRQ release. [Dominique: remove confusing variable reset to 0]
Severity
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 19:58 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 71ebd71921e451f0f942ddfe85d01e31ddc6eb88 , < 692eb06703afc3e24d889d77e94a0e20229f6a4a (git)
Affected: 71ebd71921e451f0f942ddfe85d01e31ddc6eb88 , < d74b4b297097bd361b8a9abfde9b521ff464ea9c (git)
Affected: 71ebd71921e451f0f942ddfe85d01e31ddc6eb88 , < 7f5a2ed5c1810661e6b03f5a4ebf17682cdea850 (git)
Affected: 71ebd71921e451f0f942ddfe85d01e31ddc6eb88 , < 4950408793b118cb8075bcee1f033b543fb719fa (git)
Affected: 71ebd71921e451f0f942ddfe85d01e31ddc6eb88 , < b9e26059664bd9ebc64a0e8f5216266fc9f84265 (git)
Affected: 71ebd71921e451f0f942ddfe85d01e31ddc6eb88 , < 2bb3ee1bf237557daea1d58007d2e1d4a6502ccf (git)
Affected: 71ebd71921e451f0f942ddfe85d01e31ddc6eb88 , < d888f5f5d76b2722c267e6bdf51d445d60647b7b (git)
Affected: 71ebd71921e451f0f942ddfe85d01e31ddc6eb88 , < 530bc9f03a102fac95b07cda513bfc16ff69e0ee (git)
Affected: 71ebd71921e451f0f942ddfe85d01e31ddc6eb88 , < e43c608f40c065b30964f0a806348062991b802d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.325 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.287 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.231 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.174 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.120 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.64 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.11 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.2 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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