CVE-2024-36021: 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: net: hns3: fix kernel crash when devlink reload during pf initialization The devlink reload process will access the hardware resources, but the register operation is done before the hardware is initialized. So, processing the devlink reload during initialization may lead to kernel crash. This patch fixes this by taking devl_lock during initialization.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.15, before 6.1.85 (fixed in 6.1.85); from 6.2, before 6.6.26 (fixed in 6.6.26); from 6.7, before 6.8.5 (fixed in 6.8.5); version 6.9 only

Published 2024-05-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.