Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-50184 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio_pmem: Check device status before requesting flush If a pmem device is in a bad status, the driver side could wait for host ack forever in virtio_pmem_flush(), causing the system to hang. So add a status check in the beginning of virtio_pmem_flush() to return early if the device is not activated.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ce662fe4be6fbc2595d9ef4888b2b6e778c99ed
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59ac565c6277d4be6661e81ea6a7f3ca2c5e4e36
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a5ca0ab94e13a1474bf7ad8437a975c2193618f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a2bc9b6f929a2ce1ebe4d1a796ddab37568c5b4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b01793cc63dd39c8f12b9a3d8dc115fbebb19e2a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce7a3a62cc533c922072f328fd2ea2fd7cb893d4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e25fbcd97cf52c3c9824d44b5c56c19673c3dd50