CVE-2024-53240: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.7. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xen/netfront: fix crash when removing device When removing a netfront device directly after a suspend/resume cycle it might happen that the queues have not been setup again, causing a crash during the attempt to stop the queues another time. Fix that by checking the queues are existing before trying to stop them. This is XSA-465 / CVE-2024-53240.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.19.269, before 4.20 (fixed in 4.20); from 5.4.227, before 5.4.288 (fixed in 5.4.288); from 5.10.159, before 5.10.232 (fixed in 5.10.232); from 5.15.83, before 5.15.175 (fixed in 5.15.175); from 6.0.13, before 6.1 (fixed in 6.1); from 6.1.1, before 6.1.121 (fixed in 6.1.121); …

Published 2024-12-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.