Linux KernelOperating system · Linux

CVE-2024-42127

MEDIUM · 5.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2024-07-30
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 5.4.280 / 5.10.222 or later.
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57/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/lima: fix shared irq handling on driver remove lima uses a shared interrupt, so the interrupt handlers must be prepared to be called at any time. At driver removal time, the clocks are disabled early and the interrupts stay registered until the very end of the remove process due to the devm usage. This is potentially a bug as the interrupts access device registers which assumes clocks are enabled. A crash can be triggered by removing the driver in a kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ enabled. This patch frees the interrupts at each lima device finishing callback so that the handlers are already unregistered by the time we fully disable clocks.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Linux KernelOperating system
Affected:>= 5.2, < 5.4.280>= 5.5, < 5.10.222>= 5.11, < 5.15.163>= 5.16, < 6.1.98>= 6.2, < 6.6.39>= 6.7, < 6.9.9

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 5.4.280 / 5.10.222 / 5.15.163 or later
Fixed in 5.4.2805.10.2225.15.163
Vendor patch git.kernel.org →
Recommended fix High confidence

5.4.280, 5.10.222, 5.15.163, or 6.1.98 (or any later stable release)

  1. Option 1 - Apply vendor patch: Obtain the patch from commit 04d531b9a1875846d4f89953b469ad463aa7a770 and apply it to your kernel source tree, then rebuild the kernel.
  2. Option 2 - Upgrade kernel: Upgrade to a kernel version that includes the fix: 5.4.280 or later, 5.10.222 or later, 5.15.163 or later, or 6.1.98 or later.
Caveat Kernel upgrades may introduce regressions; test in non-production environment first

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