CVE-2024-38580 is a medium-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's epoll mechanism, affecting the handling of file lifetimes. Specifically, it involves a race condition where epoll's call to vfs_poll() might use a file pointer that has already had its reference count drop to zero, potentially leading to a use-after-free scenario. This local vulnerability has high attack complexity and requires low privileges, with a potential impact of high availability loss. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 5.15.161CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.16, < 6.1.93CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.2, < 6.6.33CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.7, < 6.8.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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