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CVE-2024-38630

watchdog: cpu5wdt.c: Fix use-after-free bug caused by cpu5wdt_trigger

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.6.33, 6.9.4
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: watchdog: cpu5wdt.c: Fix use-after-free bug caused by cpu5wdt_trigger When the cpu5wdt module is removing, the origin code uses del_timer() to de-activate the timer. If the timer handler is running, del_timer() could not stop it and will return directly. If the port region is released by release_region() and then the timer handler cpu5wdt_trigger() calls outb() to write into the region that is released, the use-after-free bug will happen. Change del_timer() to timer_shutdown_sync() in order that the timer handler could be finished before the port region is released.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    Version range not reported

  • Linux Linux

    2.6.12

  • KernelLinux

    From 2.6.12 · fixed in 6.6.33; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.9.4

References 5

git.kernel.org