# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-56623"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-12-27T14:51:26.484Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:56:03.085Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
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-2024-56623"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56623.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56623"
title: "scsi: qla2xxx: Fix use after free on unload"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qla2xxx: Fix use after free on unload\n\nSystem crash is observed with stack trace warning of use after\nfree. There are 2 signals to tell dpc_thread to terminate (UNLOADING\nflag and kthread_stop).\n\nOn setting the UNLOADING flag when dpc_thread happens to run at the time\nand sees the flag, this causes dpc_thread to exit and clean up\nitself. When kthread_stop is called for final cleanup, this causes use\nafter free.\n\nRemove UNLOADING signal to terminate dpc_thread.  Use the kthread_stop\nas the main signal to exit dpc_thread.\n\n[596663.812935] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:294!\n[596663.812950] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\n[596663.812957] CPU: 13 PID: 1475935 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G          IOE    --------- -  - 4.18.0-240.el8.x86_64 #1\n[596663.812960] Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8, BIOS P70 08/20/2012\n[596663.812974] RIP: 0010:__slab_free+0x17d/0x360\n\n...\n[596663.813008] Call Trace:\n[596663.813022]  ? __dentry_kill+0x121/0x170\n[596663.813030]  ? _cond_resched+0x15/0x30\n[596663.813034]  ? _cond_resched+0x15/0x30\n[596663.813039]  ? wait_for_completion+0x35/0x190\n[596663.813048]  ? try_to_wake_up+0x63/0x540\n[596663.813055]  free_task+0x5a/0x60\n[596663.813061]  kthread_stop+0xf3/0x100\n[596663.813103]  qla2x00_remove_one+0x284/0x440 [qla2xxx]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a29b3dd7aa14facc902b40b8b5c4dccbfb2ad7d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12f04fc8580eafb0510f805749553eb6213f323e"},{"version":"a29b3dd7aa14facc902b40b8b5c4dccbfb2ad7d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ca36d9d53745d5ec8946ef85006d4da605ea7c54"},{"version":"a29b3dd7aa14facc902b40b8b5c4dccbfb2ad7d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b3e6f25176f248762a24d25ab8cf8c5e90874f80"},{"version":"a29b3dd7aa14facc902b40b8b5c4dccbfb2ad7d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"15369e774f27ec790f207de87c0b541e3f90b22d"},{"version":"a29b3dd7aa14facc902b40b8b5c4dccbfb2ad7d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6abf16d3c915b2feb68c1c8b25fcb71b13f98478"},{"version":"a29b3dd7aa14facc902b40b8b5c4dccbfb2ad7d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"07c903db0a2ff84b68efa1a74a4de353ea591eb0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.8"},{"version":"5.10.231","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.174","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.66","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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