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GHSA-X78R-6W48-6G3Q

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-07-12 15:31 – Updated: 2025-11-04 00:30

Details

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

KVM: arm64: Disassociate vcpus from redistributor region on teardown

When tearing down a redistributor region, make sure we don't have any dangling pointer to that region stored in a vcpu.

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-2024-40989 (GCVE-0-2024-40989)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:37 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:23

Title

KVM: arm64: Disassociate vcpus from redistributor region on teardown

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Disassociate vcpus from redistributor region on teardown When tearing down a redistributor region, make sure we don't have any dangling pointer to that region stored in a vcpu.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

Assigner

Linux

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68df4fc449fcc2434…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48bb62859d47c5c41…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/152b4123f21e6aff3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d92e4a7ffd5c42b9…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: e5a35635464bc5304674b84ea42615a3fd0bd949 , < 68df4fc449fcc24347209e500ce26d5816705a77 (git) Affected: e5a35635464bc5304674b84ea42615a3fd0bd949 , < 48bb62859d47c5c4197a8c01128d0fa4f46ee58c (git) Affected: e5a35635464bc5304674b84ea42615a3fd0bd949 , < 152b4123f21e6aff31cea01158176ad96a999c76 (git) Affected: e5a35635464bc5304674b84ea42615a3fd0bd949 , < 0d92e4a7ffd5c42b9fa864692f82476c0bf8bcc8 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.13 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (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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GHSA-X78R-6W48-6G3Q

CVE-2024-40989 (GCVE-0-2024-40989)

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