CVE-2024-38607 macintosh/via-macii: Fix "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context"

What is CVE-2024-38607?

CVE-2024-38607 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jun 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:

macintosh/via-macii: Fix "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context"

The via-macii ADB driver calls request_irq() after disabling hard interrupts. But disabling interrupts isn't necessary here because the VIA shift register interrupt was masked during VIA1 initialization.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-38607?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-38607?

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-2024-38607 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38607 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-38607, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38607, GHSA-4gvx-p355-qcx5, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38607.