CVE-2024-44979: 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: drm/xe: Fix missing workqueue destroy in xe_gt_pagefault On driver reload we never free up the memory for the pagefault and access counter workqueues. Add those destroy calls here. (cherry picked from commit 7586fc52b14e0b8edd0d1f8a434e0de2078b7b2b)

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.8, before 6.10.7 (fixed in 6.10.7); version 6.11 only

Published 2024-09-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.