CVE-2024-36951 drm/amdkfd: range check cp bad op exception interrupts
A missing range check in the Linux kernel's AMD GPU driver allows garbage exception codes to cause instability or crashes.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-36951?
CVE-2024-36951 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 30 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdkfd: range check cp bad op exception interrupts
Due to a CP interrupt bug, bad packet garbage exception codes are raised. Do a range check so that the debugger and runtime do not receive garbage codes. Update the user api to guard exception code type checking as well.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-36951?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-36951?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-36951 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-36951 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as AZL-68069, BELL-CVE-2024-36951, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36951, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-36951, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2024-36951, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2024-36951 and 1 more.