Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-56706

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: s390/cpumsf: Fix and protect memory allocation of SDBs with mutex Reservation of the PMU...

CVE-2024-56706

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/cpumsf: Fix and protect memory allocation of SDBs with mutex Reservation of the PMU hardware is done at first event creation and is protected by a pair of mutexlock and mutexunlock. After reservation of the PMU hardware the...

CVE-2024-56706

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/cpumsf: Fix and protect memory allocation of SDBs with mutex Reservation of the PMU hardware is done at first event creation and is protected by a pair of mutexlock and mutexunlock. After reservation of the PMU hardware the...

CVE-2024-56706

Summary of CVE-2024-56706: In Linux kernel s390 perf_cpum_sf, memory allocation for Sample Data Blocks (SDBs) could be performed concurrently outside the PMU reservation mutex, allowing multiple allocations for the same PMU when perf_event_init() runs in parallel. The fix is to protect SDB memory...