Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-36962

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: net: ks8851: Queue RX packets in IRQ handler instead of disabling BHs Currently the driver...

CVE-2024-36962

CVE-2024-36962 affects the Linux kernel KS8851 driver (net: ks8851). The vulnerability arises when RX packets are queued inside an IRQ handler that is protected by a mutex, which could lead to hanging due to a potential lock conflict with net_rx_action(). The fix replaces BH manipulation (local_b...

CVE-2024-36962

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ks8851: Queue RX packets in IRQ handler instead of disabling BHs Currently the driver uses localbhdisable/localbhenable in its IRQ handler to avoid triggering netrxaction softirq on exit from netifrx. The netrxaction could...