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

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...

CVE-2024-36962

The CVE-2024-36962 issue affects the Linux kernel KS8851 driver for SPI-bus KS8851, where RX packets were queued in the IRQ handler with netif_rx() inside a critical section protected by a lock. This could lead to a hang by racing with the driver’s start_xmit. The fix removes BH manipulation and ...