CVE-2024-53240

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53240
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-53240.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-53240
Downstream
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Published
2024-12-24T10:15:06Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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

xen/netfront: fix crash when removing device

When removing a netfront device directly after a suspend/resume cycle it might happen that the queues have not been setup again, causing a crash during the attempt to stop the queues another time.

Fix that by checking the queues are existing before trying to stop them.

This is XSA-465 / CVE-2024-53240.

References

Affected packages