1226736 – (CVE-2024-38561) VUL-0: CVE-2024-38561: kernel: kunit: Fix kthread reference

Bug 1226736 (CVE-2024-38561) - VUL-0: CVE-2024-38561: kernel: kunit: Fix kthread reference

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-38561: kernel: kunit: Fix kthread reference

Status:	NEW

Alias:	CVE-2024-38561

Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P3 - Medium Severity: Normal
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Assignee:	Security Team bot
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/411408/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-38561:0.0:(AV:...
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Reported:	2024-06-21 11:03 UTC by SMASH SMASH
Modified:	2024-06-21 15:10 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description SMASH SMASH 2024-06-21 11:03:28 UTC

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.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-38561
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2024/CVE-2024-38561.mbox
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
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38561
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293432