xen/netfront: fix crash when removing device
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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
1250 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-465.html
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d5354a9182b6d302ae10367cbec1ca339d4e4e7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20f7f0cf7af5d81b218202ef504223af84b16a8f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2657ba851fa3381256d81e431b20041dc232fd88
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7728e974ffbf14f17648dd92ea640b42b654d47c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b41e6bccf7de93982781be4125211443382e66d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9244fb55f37356f75c739c57323d9422d7aa0f8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe9a8f5250aed0948b668c8a4e051e3b0fc29f09
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/53xxx/CVE-2024-53240.json
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53240