CVE-2024-55916

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before the channel is fully opened,\nand when the channel callback is starting to run, util_probe()->\nvmbus_open() may have not initialized the ringbuffer yet, so the\ncallback can hit the panic of NULL pointer dereference.\n\nTo reproduce the panic consistently, we can add a \"ssleep(10)\" for KVP in\n__vmbus_open(), just before the first hv_ringbuffer_init(), and then we\nunload and reload the driver hv_utils, and run the daemon manually within\nthe 10 seconds.\n\nFix the panic by reordering the steps in util_probe() so the char dev\nentry used by the KVP or VSS daemon is not created until after\nvmbus_open() has completed. This reordering prevents the race condition\nfrom happening."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: Controladores: hv: util: evitar acceder a un b\u00fafer de anillo que a\u00fan no se ha inicializado Si el daemon KVP (o VSS) se inicia antes de que el b\u00fafer de anillo del canal VMBus se haya inicializado por completo, podemos activar el p\u00e1nico siguiente: hv_utils: registrar el controlador de la utilidad HyperV hv_vmbus: registrar el controlador hv_utils ... 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