# CVE-2024-49963: mailbox: bcm2835: Fix timeout during suspend mode

> A timeout in the BCM2835 mailbox driver during suspend causes system warnings and potential instability on Raspberry Pi devices.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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:** 21 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-52317, BELL-CVE-2024-49963, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49963, GHSA-m236-cj4j-935h, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-49963

## What is CVE-2024-49963?

CVE-2024-49963 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 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:

mailbox: bcm2835: Fix timeout during suspend mode

During noirq suspend phase the Raspberry Pi power driver suffer of
firmware property timeouts. The reason is that the IRQ of the underlying
BCM2835 mailbox is disabled and rpi_firmware_property_list() will always
run into a timeout [1].

Since the VideoCore side isn't consider as a wakeup source, set the
IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag for the mailbox IRQ in order to keep it enabled
during suspend-resume cycle.

[1]
PM: late suspend of devices complete after 1.754 msecs
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 438 at drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c:128
 rpi_firmware_property_list+0x204/0x22c
Firmware transaction 0x00028001 timeout
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 438 Comm: bash Tainted: G         C         6.9.3-dirty #17
Hardware name: BCM2835
Call trace:
unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x18/0x1c
show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
dump_stack_lvl from __warn+0x88/0xec
__warn from warn_slowpath_fmt+0x7c/0xb0
warn_slowpath_fmt from rpi_firmware_property_list+0x204/0x22c
rpi_firmware_property_list from rpi_firmware_property+0x68/0x8c
rpi_firmware_property from rpi_firmware_set_power+0x54/0xc0
rpi_firmware_set_power from _genpd_power_off+0xe4/0x148
_genpd_power_off from genpd_sync_power_off+0x7c/0x11c
genpd_sync_power_off from genpd_finish_suspend+0xcc/0xe0
genpd_finish_suspend from dpm_run_callback+0x78/0xd0
dpm_run_callback from device_suspend_noirq+0xc0/0x238
device_suspend_noirq from dpm_suspend_noirq+0xb0/0x168
dpm_suspend_noirq from suspend_devices_and_enter+0x1b8/0x5ac
suspend_devices_and_enter from pm_suspend+0x254/0x2e4
pm_suspend from state_store+0xa8/0xd4
state_store from kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x154/0x1a0
kernfs_fop_write_iter from vfs_write+0x12c/0x184
vfs_write from ksys_write+0x78/0xc0
ksys_write from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54
Exception stack(0xcc93dfa8 to 0xcc93dff0)
[...]
PM: noirq suspend of devices complete after 3095.584 msecs

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-49963?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-49963?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-49963 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-49963 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-49963 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-49963 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 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-2024-49963 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. 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-2024-49963/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-49963/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49963
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49963
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-49963

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