{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-35959 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-35959 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 20 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-35959 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-35959 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 20 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-35959 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-35959/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-35959/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-35959","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-35959/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-35959","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2024-35959","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35959","GHSA-gj4j-4qw6-9rp8","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2024-35959","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-35959"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A missing lock in the Mellanox mlx5e driver cleanup flow can trigger a kernel warning and potential instability during module initialization failures.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-459","name":"Incomplete Cleanup"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Fix mlx5e_priv_init() cleanup flow\n\nWhen mlx5e_priv_init() fails, the cleanup flow calls mlx5e_selq_cleanup which\ncalls mlx5e_selq_apply() that assures that the `priv-\u003estate_lock` is held using\nlockdep_is_held().\n\nAcquire the state_lock in mlx5e_selq_cleanup().\n\nKernel log:\n=============================\nWARNING: suspicious RCU usage\n6.8.0-rc3_net_next_841a9b5 #1 Not tainted\n-----------------------------\ndrivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/selq.c:124 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!\n\nother info that might help us debug this:\n\nrcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1\n2 locks held by systemd-modules/293:\n #0: ffffffffa05067b0 (devices_rwsem){++++}-{3:3}, at: ib_register_client+0x109/0x1b0 [ib_core]\n #1: ffff8881096c65c0 (\u0026device-\u003eclient_data_rwsem){++++}-{3:3}, at: add_client_context+0x104/0x1c0 [ib_core]\n\nstack backtrace:\nCPU: 4 PID: 293 Comm: systemd-modules Not tainted 6.8.0-rc3_net_next_841a9b5 #1\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x8a/0xa0\n lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x154/0x1a0\n mlx5e_selq_apply+0x94/0xa0 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5e_selq_cleanup+0x3a/0x60 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5e_priv_init+0x2be/0x2f0 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_rdma_setup_rn+0x7c/0x1a0 [mlx5_core]\n rdma_init_netdev+0x4e/0x80 [ib_core]\n ? mlx5_rdma_netdev_free+0x70/0x70 [mlx5_core]\n ipoib_intf_init+0x64/0x550 [ib_ipoib]\n ipoib_intf_alloc+0x4e/0xc0 [ib_ipoib]\n ipoib_add_one+0xb0/0x360 [ib_ipoib]\n add_client_context+0x112/0x1c0 [ib_core]\n ib_register_client+0x166/0x1b0 [ib_core]\n ? 0xffffffffa0573000\n ipoib_init_module+0xeb/0x1a0 [ib_ipoib]\n do_one_initcall+0x61/0x250\n do_init_module+0x8a/0x270\n init_module_from_file+0x8b/0xd0\n idempotent_init_module+0x17d/0x230\n __x64_sys_finit_module+0x61/0xb0\n do_syscall_64+0x71/0x140\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0x4e\n \u003c/TASK\u003e","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"net/mlx5e: Fix mlx5e_priv_init() cleanup flow","id":"CVE-2024-35959","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"net/mlx5: Properly link new fs rules into the tree","id":"CVE-2024-35960"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"net: ena: Fix incorrect descriptor free behavior","id":"CVE-2024-35958"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-05-20","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A missing lock in the Mellanox mlx5e driver cleanup flow can trigger a kernel warning and potential instability during module initialization failures.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-35959/"}