CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-46761

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-09-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-09-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pci/hotplug/pnv_php: Fix hotplug driver crash on Powernv The hotplug driver for powerpc (pci/hotplug/pnv_php.c) causes a kernel crash when we try to hot-unplug/disable the PCIe switch/bridge from the PHB. The crash occurs because although the MSI data structure has been released during disable/hot-unplug path and it has been assigned with NULL, still during unregistration the code was again trying to explicitly disable the MSI which causes the NULL pointer dereference and kernel crash. The patch fixes the check during unregistration path to prevent invoking pci_disable_msi/msix() since its data structure is already freed.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 4.19.322) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.284) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.226) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.167) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.110) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.51) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.10.10)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References