CVE-2024-57946Medium

Microsoft security update for CVE-2024-57946

Published
March 8, 2025
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products5

  • azl3 kernel 6.6.64.2-9 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.78.1-3 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.173.1-2 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.173.1-2 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.176.3-3 on CBL Mariner 2.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates

2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update5.15.176.3-3
—Security Update6.6.78.1-3

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-57946

EchelonGraph score
5.5 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-blk: don't keep queue frozen during system suspend Commit 4ce6e2db00de ("virtio-blk: Ensure no requests in virtqueues before deleting vqs.") replaces queue quiesce with queue freeze in virtio-blk's PM callbacks. And the motivation is to drain inflight IOs before suspending. block layer's queue freeze looks very handy, but it is also easy to cause deadlock, such as, any attempt to call into bio_queue_enter() may run into deadlock if the queue is frozen in current context. There are all kinds of ->suspend() called in suspend context, so keeping queue frozen in the whole suspend context isn't one good idea. And Marek reported lockdep warning[1] caused by virtio-blk's freeze queue in virtblk_freeze(). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/[email protected]/ Given the motivation is to drain in-flight IOs, it can be done by calling freeze & unfreeze, meantime restore to previous behavior by keeping queue quiesced during suspend.

Published by kernel.org, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-57946, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)