Threats tagged 'ghsa-w28c-hqg3-44gm'

CVE-2024-57896 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Btrfs filesystem code. It occurs during the unmount process when the cleaner kernel thread is stopped before all delayed allocation worker threads have finished, leading to a use-after-free on the task_struct. This flaw can cause memory corruption and potentially lead to system crashes or privilege escalation.