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Red Hat: CVE-2024-38561: kernel: kunit: Fix kthread reference

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2024-38561: kernel: kunit: Fix kthread reference
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2024-06-19T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2024, 38561, kernel, no-fix-redhat-rpm-package, Severity 7

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

Jun 19, 2024

Added

Jul 9, 2025

Modified

Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

kunit: Fix kthread reference

There is a race condition when a kthread finishes after the deadline and
before the call to kthread_stop(), which may lead to use after free.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package

References

NVD-CVE-2024-38561

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