Use After Free Affecting kernel-doc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELDOC-7330581
  • published21 Jun 2024
  • disclosed19 Jun 2024

Introduced: 19 Jun 2024

CVE-2024-38561  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-doc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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