# CVE-2024-42302: PCI/DPC: Fix use-after-free on concurrent DPC and hot-removal

> A use-after-free in the Linux kernel PCI/DPC handler allows a local attacker to cause a system crash via concurrent hot-removal and DPC events.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **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:** Yes
- **Published:** 17 Aug 2024
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-47962, AZL-48048, BELL-CVE-2024-42302, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42302, GHSA-37c4-pj3v-mf79, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42302

## What is CVE-2024-42302?

CVE-2024-42302 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 17 Aug 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:

PCI/DPC: Fix use-after-free on concurrent DPC and hot-removal

Keith reports a use-after-free when a DPC event occurs concurrently to
hot-removal of the same portion of the hierarchy:

The dpc_handler() awaits readiness of the secondary bus below the
Downstream Port where the DPC event occurred.  To do so, it polls the
config space of the first child device on the secondary bus.  If that
child device is concurrently removed, accesses to its struct pci_dev
cause the kernel to oops.

That's because pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus() neglects to hold a
reference on the child device.  Before v6.3, the function was only
called on resume from system sleep or on runtime resume.  Holding a
reference wasn't necessary back then because the pciehp IRQ thread
could never run concurrently.  (On resume from system sleep, IRQs are
not enabled until after the resume_noirq phase.  And runtime resume is
always awaited before a PCI device is removed.)

However starting with v6.3, pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus() is also
called on a DPC event.  Commit 53b54ad074de ("PCI/DPC: Await readiness
of secondary bus after reset"), which introduced that, failed to
appreciate that pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus() now needs to hold a
reference on the child device because dpc_handler() and pciehp may
indeed run concurrently.  The commit was backported to v5.10+ stable
kernels, so that's the oldest one affected.

Add the missing reference acquisition.

Abridged stack trace:

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000091400c0
  CPU: 15 PID: 2464 Comm: irq/53-pcie-dpc 6.9.0
  RIP: pci_bus_read_config_dword+0x17/0x50
  pci_dev_wait()
  pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus()
  dpc_reset_link()
  pcie_do_recovery()
  dpc_handler()

Weakness: CWE-416 (Use After Free)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-42302?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-42302?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-42302 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42302 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-42302 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-42302 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 17 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42302 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42302/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42302/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42302
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42302
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-42302

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