In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
Sep 18, 2024
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Sep 23, 2024
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Sep 18, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Sep 18, 2024
Last updated
Sep 23, 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xen: privcmd: Fix possible access to a freed kirqfd instance
Nothing prevents simultaneous ioctl calls to privcmd_irqfd_assign() and
privcmd_irqfd_deassign(). If that happens, it is possible that a kirqfd
created and added to the irqfds_list by privcmd_irqfd_assign() may get
removed by another thread executing privcmd_irqfd_deassign(), while the
former is still using it after dropping the locks.
This can lead to a situation where an already freed kirqfd instance may
be accessed and cause kernel oops.
Use SRCU locking to prevent the same, as is done for the KVM
implementation for irqfds.
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