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      "value": "En el kernel de Linux, la siguiente vulnerabilidad ha sido resuelta:\n\ngpio: virtuser: corregir uso despu\u00e9s de liberaci\u00f3n en la ruta de liberaci\u00f3n de configfs\n\nLa ruta de liberaci\u00f3n de configfs de gpio-virtuser usa guard(mutex) para proteger la estructura del dispositivo. Sin embargo, el dispositivo es liberado antes de que se ejecute la limpieza del guard, causando que mutex_unlock() opere sobre memoria liberada.\n\nEspec\u00edficamente, gpio_virtuser_device_config_group_release() destruye el mutex y libera el dispositivo mientras a\u00fan est\u00e1 dentro del \u00e1mbito de guard(mutex). Cuando la funci\u00f3n retorna, la limpieza del guard invoca mutex_unlock(\u0026amp;dev-\u0026gt;lock), resultando en un uso despu\u00e9s de liberaci\u00f3n de slab.\n\nLimitar la vida \u00fatil del mutex usando un scoped_guard() solo alrededor de la verificaci\u00f3n de activaci\u00f3n, para que el bloqueo sea liberado antes de que se llamen a mutex_destroy() y kfree()."
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