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GHSA-8M45-P293-9XVP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-06-19 15:30 – Updated: 2024-08-01 21:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/amdgpu/mes: fix use-after-free issue

Delete fence fallback timer to fix the ramdom use-after-free issue.

v2: move to amdgpu_mes.c

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2024-38581 (GCVE-0-2024-38581)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-19 13:37 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:32

Title

drm/amdgpu/mes: fix use-after-free issue

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu/mes: fix use-after-free issue Delete fence fallback timer to fix the ramdom use-after-free issue. v2: move to amdgpu_mes.c

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 2024-06-20 14:58 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6667 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39cfce75168c11421…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f98c144c15c8fc0f…
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Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.20 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.20 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.93 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.33 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.8.12 , ≤ 6.8.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.9 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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