CVE-2024-44979

Published: Sep 4, 2024Modified: Oct 10, 2024

5.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Fix missing workqueue destroy in xe_gt_pagefault On driver reload we never free up the memory for the pagefault and access counter workqueues. Add those destroy calls here. (cherry picked from commit 7586fc52b14e0b8edd0d1f8a434e0de2078b7b2b)

Affected (5)

Products: Linux: Linux Kernel

Linux

1 product

Linux Kernel

Configuration A

5 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Linux Linux Kernel	From 6.8 to 6.10.7
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.11 rc1
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.11 rc2
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.11 rc3
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.11 rc4

Related CWEs

CWE-401

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

References (2)

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6f78359ac75f24cac3c1bdd753c49c1877bcd82

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b09ef3b762a7fc641fb2f89afd3ebdb65b8ba1b9

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Patch

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