CVE-2024-44961 drm/amdgpu: Forward soft recovery errors to userspace
A flaw in the AMD GPU driver allows hanging command buffers to cause cascading hard resets, leading to system denial of service.
- 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-2024-44961?
CVE-2024-44961 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 Sep 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/amdgpu: Forward soft recovery errors to userspace
As we discussed before[1], soft recovery should be forwarded to userspace, or we can get into a really bad state where apps will keep submitting hanging command buffers cascading us to a hard reset.
1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ (cherry picked from commit 434967aadbbbe3ad9103cc29e9a327de20fdba01)
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-44961?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-44961?
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-2024-44961 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-44961 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as AZL-49959, BELL-CVE-2024-44961, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44961, GHSA-jqwp-jgh2-892r, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2024-44961, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2024-44961 and 1 more.