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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 24, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025

xen/netfront: fix crash when removing device

CVE-2024-53240

Description

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.

Affected products

196

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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