CVE-2024-40956 (GCVE-0-2024-40956)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:31 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:34
VLAI
Title
dmaengine: idxd: Fix possible Use-After-Free in irq_process_work_list
Summary
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.
Severity
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: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 17:03 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 16e19e11228ba660d9e322035635e7dcf160d5c2 , < 1b08bf5a17c66ab7dbb628df5344da53c8e7ab33 (git)
Affected: 16e19e11228ba660d9e322035635e7dcf160d5c2 , < 83163667d881100a485b6c2daa30301b7f68d9b5 (git)
Affected: 16e19e11228ba660d9e322035635e7dcf160d5c2 , < faa35db78b058a2ab6e074ee283f69fa398c36a8 (git)
Affected: 16e19e11228ba660d9e322035635e7dcf160d5c2 , < a14968921486793f2a956086895c3793761309dd (git)
Affected: 16e19e11228ba660d9e322035635e7dcf160d5c2 , < e3215deca4520773cd2b155bed164c12365149a7 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.162 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.96 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.36 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.7 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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