Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-38629

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: dmaengine: idxd: Avoid unnecessary destruction of fileida fileida is allocated during cdev...

CVE-2024-38629

In CVE-2024-38629, the Linux kernel’s dmaengine: idxd driver had a use-after-free risk where ida_destroy(&file_ida) could run after file_ida was already destroyed during WQ cdev teardown, risking a kernel panic. The fix removes ida_destroy(&file_ida) since file_ida is allocated on cdev open and f...

CVE-2024-38629 dmaengine: idxd: Avoid unnecessary destruction of file_ida

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: Avoid unnecessary destruction of fileida fileida is allocated during cdev open and is freed accordingly during cdev release. This sequence is guaranteed by driver file operations. Therefore, there is no need to...

CVE-2024-38629

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: Avoid unnecessary destruction of fileida fileida is allocated during cdev open and is freed accordingly during cdev release. This sequence is guaranteed by driver file operations. Therefore, there is no need to...