Threats tagged 'ghsa-mfcg-4w9q-f9mr'

CVE-2024-56568 is a race condition vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ARM SMMU (System Memory Management Unit) driver. It arises from a null pointer dereference caused by a timing issue between the SMMU device probe and the client device probe. This race leads to a crash when the client device probe accesses the SMMU pointer before it is properly bound. The issue is fixed by deferring the client device probe until after the SMMU device is fully bound to the driver.