CVE-2024-53140

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netlink: terminate outstanding dump on socket close Netlink supports iterative dumping of data. It provides the families the following ops: - start - optional kicks off the dumping process - dump - actual dump helper, keeps...

CVE-2024-53140 netlink: terminate outstanding dump on socket close

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netlink: terminate outstanding dump on socket close Netlink supports iterative dumping of data. It provides the families the following ops: - start - optional kicks off the dumping process - dump - actual dump helper, keeps getti...

CVE-2024-53140

CVE-2024-53140 affects the Linux kernel netlink dump path. The vulnerability arises because dumps can be left incomplete if a user closes the netlink socket, and the prior cleanup deferred via a workqueue could end up releasing a socket reference still in an unsafe state. The fix removes the work...