Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-36961

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/debugfs: Fix two locking issues with thermal zone debug With the current thermal zon...

CVE-2024-36961

The CVE-2024-36961 issue relates to the Linux kernel’s thermal debugfs code. The root cause is two locking problems in the thermal zone debugfs handling: (1) a race where user space can open the mitigations file before the thermal zone’s debugfs pointer is set, leading to a NULL pointer dereferen...

CVE-2024-36961

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/debugfs: Fix two locking issues with thermal zone debug With the current thermal zone locking arrangement in the debugfs code, user space can open the "mitigations" file for a thermal zone before the zone's debugfs pointe...