System hang via interrupt-unsafe cgr_lock acquisition
Published May 17, 2024 · Updated May 23, 2026
Improper locking in the Linux kernel's FSL QMan driver allows local users to hang the system by triggering a cgr_lock deadlock. Several paths in drivers/soc/fsl/qbman/qman.c acquire cgr_lock without disabling interrupts, while an interrupt-context callback can acquire the same lock. A local low-privilege user must reach the FSL DPAA QMan congestion-group paths; exploitation can deadlock a CPU and halt service without disclosing or changing data.
Summary
What happened
Improper locking in the Linux kernel's FSL QMan driver allows local users to hang the system by triggering a cgr_lock deadlock. Several paths in drivers/soc/fsl/qbman/qman.c acquire cgr_lock without disabling interrupts, while an interrupt-context callback can acquire the same lock. A local low-privilege user must reach the FSL DPAA QMan congestion-group paths; exploitation can deadlock a CPU and halt service without disclosing or changing data.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-35806
- Published
- May 17, 2024
- Updated
- May 23, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-667, T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- May 17, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 23, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=29cd9c2d1f428c281962135ea046a9d7bda88d14
- Affected versionversion=4.14.32 <4.15
- Affected versionversion=4.15.15 <4.16
- Affected versionversion=4.16
- Affected versionversion=4.9.92 <4.10
- Affected versionversion=5b10a404419f0532ef3ba990c12bebe118adb6d7
- Affected versionversion=96f413f47677366e0ae03797409bfcc4151dbf9e <0e6521b0f93ff350434ed4ae61a250907e65d397
- Affected versionversion=96f413f47677366e0ae03797409bfcc4151dbf9e <276af8efb05c8e47acf2738a5609dd72acfc703f
- Affected versionversion=96f413f47677366e0ae03797409bfcc4151dbf9e <584c2a9184a33a40fceee838f856de3cffa19be3
- Affected versionversion=96f413f47677366e0ae03797409bfcc4151dbf9e <62c3ecd2833cff0eff4a82af4082c44ca8d2518a
- Affected versionversion=96f413f47677366e0ae03797409bfcc4151dbf9e <a62168653774c36398d65846a98034436ee66d03
- Affected versionversion=96f413f47677366e0ae03797409bfcc4151dbf9e <af25c5180b2b1796342798f6c56fcfd12f5035bd
- Affected versionversion=96f413f47677366e0ae03797409bfcc4151dbf9e <b56a793f267679945d1fdb9a280013bd2d0ed7f9
- Affected versionversion=96f413f47677366e0ae03797409bfcc4151dbf9e <dd199e5b759ffe349622a4b8fbcafc51fc51b1ec
- Affected versionversion=96f413f47677366e0ae03797409bfcc4151dbf9e <e6378314bb920acb39013051fa65d8f9f8030430
- Affected versionversion=a85c525bbff4d7467d7f0ab6fed8e2f787b073d6
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