CVE-2024-50234 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Linux
Severity
7.0HIGHNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.8OSV6.7OSV6.3OSV5.5OSV4.7
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.99%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 9
Latest updateAug 14
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlegacy: Clear stale interrupts before resuming device
iwl4965 fails upon resume from hibernation on my laptop. The reason
seems to be a stale interrupt which isn't being cleared out before
interrupts are enabled. We end up with a race beween the resume
trying to bring things back up, and the restart work (queued form
the interrupt handler) trying to bring things down. Eventually
the whole thing blows up.
Fix the probl…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 5.9