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CVE-2024-50184

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2024-11-08 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio_pmem: Check device status before requesting flush If a pmem device is in a bad status, the driver side could wait for host ack forever in virtio_pmem_flush(), causing the system to hang. So add a status check in the beginning of virtio_pmem_flush() to return early if the device is not activated.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-754, CWE-754

References