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CVE-2024-38561 Race condition

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Remediate Within 6 Months

CVE Information

Original CVE data

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kunit: Fix kthread reference There is a race condition when a kthread finishes after the deadline and before the call to kthread_stop(), which may lead to use after free.

CWE: CWE-416
CVSS v2-
CVSS v37
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f2ebd3758e1cef6a1f998a1f7ea73310dcb1699
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ec7ccb4cd4b6f72c2998b07880fa7aaf8dfe1d4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f5c841a559ccb700c8d27a3ca645b7a5f59b4f5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0b755cb5a5e0d7168c3ab1b3814b0d3cad9f017
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8aa1b98ce40184521ed95ec26cc115a255183b2
Affected Vendors

Linux - (1)

Basic Analysis

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOnengine

Race condition

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOnengine
CVSS v24.4
AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v37
AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
MITRE CWE Top 25

Vulnerability weakness type is in the top 25 CWEs according to MITRE. View Mitre Top 25 CWEs

Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

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Threat Actor Activity

No sightings of the vulnerability within threat reports.

Cybersecurity Frameworks

How the vulnerability maps against various cybersecurity frameworks

T1499.004 - Endpoint Denial of Service (Application or System Exploitation)
T1203 - Exploitation for Client Execution
T1059 - Command and Scripting Interpreter

Compliance Impact

How the submited vulnerability affects compliance

PCI DSS v3.2.1-6.5.2 - Buffer Overflows

Web Application Security Frameworks

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application

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