Local system crash via unsynchronized HDMA doorbell
Published May 17, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
A race condition in the Linux kernel dw-edma HDMA driver allows local users to crash the system during a remote-setup DMA transfer. The driver rings the HDMA doorbell before a posted linked-list write is synchronized, allowing hardware to consume an incomplete descriptor. Low-privilege local access and an HDMA remote configuration are required; the reported consequence is availability loss, not data access.
Summary
What happened
A race condition in the Linux kernel dw-edma HDMA driver allows local users to crash the system during a remote-setup DMA transfer. The driver rings the HDMA doorbell before a posted linked-list write is synchronized, allowing hardware to consume an incomplete descriptor. Low-privilege local access and an HDMA remote configuration are required; the reported consequence is availability loss, not data access.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-27409
- Published
- May 17, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-366, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- May 17, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.5
- Affected versionversion=e74c39573d35e9ac441090ff8183aa3dc2540649 <17be6f5cb223f22e4733ed8fe8b2247cbb677716
- Affected versionversion=e74c39573d35e9ac441090ff8183aa3dc2540649 <227ef58a9b0c372efba422e8886a8015a1509eba
- Affected versionversion=e74c39573d35e9ac441090ff8183aa3dc2540649 <712a92a48158e02155b4b6b21e03a817f78c9b7e
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