Threats tagged 'ghsa-c5xm-9r44-7w3j'

CVE-2024-47739 is a vulnerability in the Linux kernel's padata subsystem where integer overflow in sequence numbers (seq_nr) can cause a deadlock. When more than 2^32 padata objects are submitted, the sorting mechanism mishandles overflowed seq_nr values, leading to incorrect ordering and a deadlock in serialization. The issue is fixed by implementing unsigned integer wrap around to correctly sort padata objects after seq_nr overflow.