CVE-2024-44932

Aliases:UBUNTU-CVE-2024-44932DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44932
Analyzed
Published: 26 Aug 2024, 10:11
Last modified:11 May 2026, 20:32

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.23% LOW
0% probability +0.21%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

26 Aug 2024, 10:11
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
11 May 2026, 20:32
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: idpf: fix UAFs when destroying the queues The second tagged commit started sometimes (very rarely, but possible) throwing WARNs from net/core/page_pool.c:page_pool_disable_direct_recycling(). Turned out idpf frees interrupt vectors with embedded NAPIs *before* freeing the queues making page_pools' NAPI pointers lead to freed memory before these pools are destroyed by libeth. It's not clear whether there are other accesses to the freed vectors when destroying the queues, but anyway, we usually free queue/interrupt vectors only when the queues are destroyed and the NAPIs are guaranteed to not be referenced anywhere. Invert the allocation and freeing logic making queue/interrupt vectors be allocated first and freed last. Vectors don't require queues to be present, so this is safe. Additionally, this change allows to remove that useless queue->q_vector pointer cleanup, as vectors are still valid when freeing the queues (+ both are freed within one function, so it's not clear why nullify the pointers at all).

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1HIGHScore: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.23% Percentile: 14%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-416Use After Free

    The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Systems

  • debianlinux

    < 6.10.6-1 | < 6.10.6-1

  • ubuntulinux

    all

  • ubuntulinux-allwinner-5.19

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.0

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.13

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.19

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.3

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.8

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-6.2

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-6.5

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-6.8

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-fips

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure

    all | all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.13

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.19

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.3

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.8

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-6.2

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-6.5

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-6.8

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-edge

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde

    all | all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde-5.19

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde-6.2

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde-6.8

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fips

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-nvidia

    all

  • ubuntulinux-bluefield

    all

  • ubuntulinux-fips

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp

    all | all | all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-5.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-5.13

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-5.15

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-5.19

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-5.3

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-5.8

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-6.2

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-6.5

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-6.8

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-fips

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gke

    all | all | all

  • ubuntulinux-gke-4.15

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gke-5.15

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gke-5.4

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gkeop

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gkeop-5.4

    all

  • ubuntulinux-hwe

    all

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References (7)