Security Advisory

CVE-2024-50184

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-11-08 05:38:25
Last updated 2026-05-11 20:47:03
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio_pmem: Check device status before requesting flush If a pmem device is in a bad status, the driver side could wait for host ack forever in virtio_pmem_flush(), causing the system to hang. So add a status check in the beginning of virtio_pmem_flush() to return early if the device is not activated.