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Red Hat: CVE-2024-40956: kernel: dmaengine: idxd: Fix possible Use-After-Free in irq_process_work_list (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 12, 2024
Added
Sep 6, 2024
Modified
Jun 17, 2026

Description

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

dmaengine: idxd: Fix possible Use-After-Free in irq_process_work_list

Use list_for_each_entry_safe() to allow iterating through the list and
deleting the entry in the iteration process. The descriptor is freed via
idxd_desc_complete() and there's a slight chance may cause issue for
the list iterator when the descriptor is reused by another thread
without it being deleted from the list.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
Title
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