Expired Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt-modules-internal  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELRTMODULESINTERNAL-7513019
  • published17 Jul 2024
  • disclosed12 Jul 2024

Introduced: 12 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-40989  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-825  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-modules-internal package and not the kernel-rt-modules-internal package as distributed by RHEL.

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

KVM: arm64: Disassociate vcpus from redistributor region on teardown

When tearing down a redistributor region, make sure we don't have any dangling pointer to that region stored in a vcpu.