CVE-2025-40024 (GCVE-0-2025-40024)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-24 12:24 – Updated: 2025-10-24 12:24
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Title
vhost: Take a reference on the task in struct vhost_task.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost: Take a reference on the task in struct vhost_task. vhost_task_create() creates a task and keeps a reference to its task_struct. That task may exit early via a signal and its task_struct will be released. A pending vhost_task_wake() will then attempt to wake the task and access a task_struct which is no longer there. Acquire a reference on the task_struct while creating the thread and release the reference while the struct vhost_task itself is removed. If the task exits early due to a signal, then the vhost_task_wake() will still access a valid task_struct. The wake is safe and will be skipped in this case.
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Linux Linux Affected: f9010dbdce911ee1f1af1398a24b1f9f992e0080 , < 82a1463c968b1a6ae598a4f2fcef17b71bb7d3a0 (git)
Affected: f9010dbdce911ee1f1af1398a24b1f9f992e0080 , < d2be773a92874a070215b51b730cb2b1eaa8fae2 (git)
Affected: f9010dbdce911ee1f1af1398a24b1f9f992e0080 , < 7ce635b3d3aba43296b62b5a2d97c008bc51cbd2 (git)
Affected: f9010dbdce911ee1f1af1398a24b1f9f992e0080 , < afe16653e05db07d658b55245c7a2e0603f136c0 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.109 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.50 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.10 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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