The vulnerability of the dsa_switch_shutdown() function in the net/dsa/dsa2.c module allows a hacker to trigger a service failure in systems with a distributed kernel architecture of the Linux operating system.

The vulnerability of the dsaswitchshutdown function in the net/dsa/dsa2.c module, which supports Linux kernel with distributed architecture switches, is related to synchronization errors when using shared resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...