High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Jun 19, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-38561
CVE-2024-38561
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kunit: Fix kthread reference
There is a race condition when a kthread finishes after the deadline and before the call to kthread_stop(), which may lead to use after free.
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References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ec7ccb4cd4b6f72c2998b07880fa7aaf8dfe1d4nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f2ebd3758e1cef6a1f998a1f7ea73310dcb1699nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f5c841a559ccb700c8d27a3ca645b7a5f59b4f5nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0b755cb5a5e0d7168c3ab1b3814b0d3cad9f017nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8aa1b98ce40184521ed95ec26cc115a255183b2nvdPatch
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