CVE-2024-42135

vhost_task: Handle SIGKILL by flushing work and exiting

published July 30, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vhost_task: Handle SIGKILL by flushing work and exiting

Instead of lingering until the device is closed, this has us handle

SIGKILL by:

1. marking the worker as killed so we no longer try to use it with

new virtqueues and new flush operations.

2. setting the virtqueue to worker mapping so no new works are queued.

3. running all the exiting works.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00227 · 12.7th percentile
Published
2024-07-30T07:46Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 JUL 07:46Z
    vhost_task: Handle SIGKILL by flushing work and exiting
    cvelistv5