# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-38556"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-06-19T13:35:26.753Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:32:46.140Z"
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-2024-38556"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-38556.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38556"
title: "net/mlx5: Add a timeout to acquire the command queue semaphore"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5: Add a timeout to acquire the command queue semaphore\n\nPrevent forced completion handling on an entry that has not yet been\nassigned an index, causing an out of bounds access on idx = -22.\nInstead of waiting indefinitely for the sem, blocking flow now waits for\nindex to be allocated or a sem acquisition timeout before beginning the\ntimer for FW completion.\n\nKernel log example:\nmlx5_core 0000:06:00.0: wait_func_handle_exec_timeout:1128:(pid 185911): cmd[-22]: CREATE_UCTX(0xa04) No done completion"
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