Threats tagged 'ghsa-24f8-f4wm-56gg'

CVE-2024-43870 is a medium severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's perf subsystem where an event reference count leak occurs upon task exit. This happens due to ignored failures when adding an event's callback to the task_work engine, leading to a small window where pending signals cause the event's reference count to increase but never decrease properly. The flaw results in events not being released correctly during task exit, potentially causing resource leaks and impacting system availability.