CVE-2024-36944

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.15.156-5.15.158, 6.1.87-6.1.90, 6.6.28-6.6.30, 6.8.7-6.8.9 - Improper Locking in DRM QXL Fence Wait

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Reapply "drm/qxl: simplify qxl_fence_wait" This reverts commit 07ed11afb68d94eadd4ffc082b97c2331307c5ea. Stephen Rostedt reports: "I went to run my tests on my VMs and the tests hung on boot up. Unfortunately, the most I ever got out was: [ 93.607888] Testing event system initcall: OK [ 93.667730] Running tests on all trace events: [ 93.669757] Testing all events: OK [ 95.631064] ------------[ cut here ]------------ Timed out after 60 seconds" and further debugging points to a possible circular locking dependency between the console_owner locking and the worker pool locking. Reverting the commit allows Steve's VM to boot to completion again. [ This may obviously result in the "[TTM] Buffer eviction failed" messages again, which was the reason for that original revert. But at this point this seems preferable to a non-booting system... ]

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (15)
linux/Kernel 5.15.156 - 5.15.159linux
linux/Kernel 6.1.87 - 6.1.91linux
linux/Kernel 6.6.28 - 6.6.31linux
linux/Kernel 6.8.7 - 6.8.10linux
Linux/Linux 07ed11afb68d94eadd4ffc082b97c2331307c5ea - 3628e0383dd349f02f882e612ab6184e4bb3dc10
Linux/Linux 13ab5db42a593f9904acc39055ee3ae75963fc88 - 3dfe35d8683daf9ba69278643efbabe40000bbf6
Linux/Linux 42cbe04a5c77da74fb7161b0ae63f1f6e105d633 - 148ed8b4d64f94ab079c8f0d88c3f444db97ba97
Linux/Linux 5.15.156 - 5.15.159
Linux/Linux 6.1.87 - 6.1.91
Linux/Linux 6.6.28 - 6.6.31
... and 5 more
Published May 30, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026