# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-36944"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-30T15:35:42.708Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:17:30.929Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:11.582Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-36944"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-36944.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36944"
title: "Reapply \"drm/qxl: simplify qxl_fence_wait\""
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nReapply \"drm/qxl: simplify qxl_fence_wait\"\n\nThis reverts commit 07ed11afb68d94eadd4ffc082b97c2331307c5ea.\n\nStephen Rostedt reports:\n \"I went to run my tests on my VMs and the tests hung on boot up.\n  Unfortunately, the most I ever got out was:\n\n  [   93.607888] Testing event system initcall: OK\n  [   93.667730] Running tests on all trace events:\n  [   93.669757] Testing all events: OK\n  [   95.631064] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n  Timed out after 60 seconds\"\n\nand further debugging points to a possible circular locking dependency\nbetween the console_owner locking and the worker pool locking.\n\nReverting the commit allows Steve's VM to boot to completion again.\n\n[ This may obviously result in the \"[TTM] Buffer eviction failed\"\n  messages again, which was the reason for that original revert. But at\n  this point this seems preferable to a non-booting system... ]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8d278fc34cdd8a44e995fa93dfd31d619a2e1fe6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4a89ac4b0921c4ea21eb1b4cf3a469a91bacfcea"},{"version":"84fb60063509e462e39c0e097c7d6dbb71c95967","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b548c53bc3ab83dc6fc86c8e840f013b2032267a"},{"version":"42cbe04a5c77da74fb7161b0ae63f1f6e105d633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"148ed8b4d64f94ab079c8f0d88c3f444db97ba97"},{"version":"13ab5db42a593f9904acc39055ee3ae75963fc88","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3dfe35d8683daf9ba69278643efbabe40000bbf6"},{"version":"07ed11afb68d94eadd4ffc082b97c2331307c5ea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3628e0383dd349f02f882e612ab6184e4bb3dc10"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15.156","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.159"},{"version":"6.1.87","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.91"},{"version":"6.6.28","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.31"},{"version":"6.8.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8.10"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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