CVE-2024-44957

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xen: privcmd: Switch from mutex to spinlock for irqfds irqfd_wakeup() gets EPOLLHUP, when it is called by eventfd_release() by way of wake_up_poll(&ctx->wqh, EPOLLHUP), which gets called under spin_lock_irqsave(). We can't use a mutex here as it will lead to a deadlock. Fix it by switching over to a spin lock.

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 (11)
linux/Kernel 6.6.0 - 6.6.46linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.10.5linux
Linux/Linux < 6.6
Linux/Linux 6.10.5 - 6.10.*
Linux/Linux 6.11
Linux/Linux 6.6
Linux/Linux 6.6.46 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux f8941e6c4c712948663ec5d7bbb546f1a0f4e3f6 - 1c682593096a487fd9aebc079a307ff7a6d054a3
Linux/Linux f8941e6c4c712948663ec5d7bbb546f1a0f4e3f6 - 49f2a5da6785b2dbde93e291cae037662440346e
Linux/Linux f8941e6c4c712948663ec5d7bbb546f1a0f4e3f6 - c2775ae4d9227729f8ca9ee2a068f62a00d5ea9c
... and 1 more
Published Sep 04, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026