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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-38385"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-06-25T14:22:37.560Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:32:35.260Z"
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-2024-38385"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-38385.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38385"
title: "genirq/irqdesc: Prevent use-after-free in irq_find_at_or_after()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngenirq/irqdesc: Prevent use-after-free in irq_find_at_or_after()\n\nirq_find_at_or_after() dereferences the interrupt descriptor which is\nreturned by mt_find() while neither holding sparse_irq_lock nor RCU read\nlock, which means the descriptor can be freed between mt_find() and the\ndereference:\n\n    CPU0                            CPU1\n    desc = mt_find()\n                                    delayed_free_desc(desc)\n    irq_desc_get_irq(desc)\n\nThe use-after-free is reported by KASAN:\n\n    Call trace:\n     irq_get_next_irq+0x58/0x84\n     show_stat+0x638/0x824\n     seq_read_iter+0x158/0x4ec\n     proc_reg_read_iter+0x94/0x12c\n     vfs_read+0x1e0/0x2c8\n\n    Freed by task 4471:\n     slab_free_freelist_hook+0x174/0x1e0\n     __kmem_cache_free+0xa4/0x1dc\n     kfree+0x64/0x128\n     irq_kobj_release+0x28/0x3c\n     kobject_put+0xcc/0x1e0\n     delayed_free_desc+0x14/0x2c\n     rcu_do_batch+0x214/0x720\n\nGuard the access with a RCU read lock section."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"721255b9826bd11c7a38b585905fc2dd0fb94e52","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1c7891812d85500ae2ca4051fa5683fcf29930d8"},{"version":"721255b9826bd11c7a38b585905fc2dd0fb94e52","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d084aa022f84319f8079e30882cbcbc026af9f21"},{"version":"721255b9826bd11c7a38b585905fc2dd0fb94e52","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b84a8aba806261d2f759ccedf4a2a6a80a5e55ba"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"},{"version":"6.6.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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