CVE-2024-53064

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been identified, specifically in the idpf vc core init error path. When the platform running the device control plane is rebooted, the driver releases all resources and waits for the reset to complete. If the device control plane is not yet started after the reset, the driver times out on the virtchnl message and retries to establish the mailbox, leading to a null-ptr-deref due to accessing the released control queue. The issue arises from the mailbox being deinitialized while the mailbox workqueue is still alive and polling for the mailbox message.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.