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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-40966: kernel security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 12, 2024
Added
Nov 26, 2024
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

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

tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc

... and use it to limit the virtual terminals to just N_TTY. They are
kind of special, and in particular, the "con_write()" routine violates
the "writes cannot sleep" rule that some ldiscs rely on.

This avoids the

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/printk/printk.c:2659

when N_GSM has been attached to a virtual console, and gsmld_write()
calls con_write() while holding a spinlock, and con_write() then tries
to get the console lock.

Solutions

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-bpftoolhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernelhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel-abi-stablelistshuawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel-toolshuawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel-tools-libshuawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-python3-perf
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