CVE-2024-35953: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: accel/ivpu: Fix deadlock in context_xa ivpu_device->context_xa is locked both in kernel thread and IRQ context. It requires XA_FLAGS_LOCK_IRQ flag to be passed during initialization otherwise the lock could be acquired from a thread and interrupted by an IRQ that locks it for the second time causing the deadlock. This deadlock was reported by lockdep and observed in internal tests.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.3, before 6.6.28 (fixed in 6.6.28); from 6.7, before 6.8.7 (fixed in 6.8.7); version 6.9 only

Published 2024-05-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.