Bug 2301500 (CVE-2024-42135) - CVE-2024-42135 kernel: vhost_task: Handle SIGKILL by flushing work and exiting
Summary: CVE-2024-42135 kernel: vhost_task: Handle SIGKILL by flushing work and exiting
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-42135
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2301993
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-07-30 08:36 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-09-23 14:03 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel 6.6.39, kernel 6.9.9, kernel 6.10
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-07-30 08:36:31 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-07-31 10:00:00 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024073029-CVE-2024-42135-0694@gregkh/T

Comment 2 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-07-31 10:00:21 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2301993]


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