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Debian: CVE-2024-50184: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2024-50184: linux -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/08/2024
Created
11/12/2024
Added
11/11/2024
Modified
11/11/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio_pmem: Check device status before requesting flush If a pmem device is in a bad status, the driver side could wait for host ack forever in virtio_pmem_flush(), causing the system to hang. So add a status check in the beginning of virtio_pmem_flush() to return early if the device is not activated.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

References

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