vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2024-53240: kernel: xen: netfront: Backend can crash Linux netfront (Xen Security Advisory 465)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | (AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Dec 24, 2024 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 24, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xen/netfront: fix crash when removing device
When removing a netfront device directly after a suspend/resume cycle
it might happen that the queues have not been setup again, causing a
crash during the attempt to stop the queues another time.
Fix that by checking the queues are existing before trying to stop
them.
This is XSA-465 / CVE-2024-53240.
Solution
no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
References
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