CVE-2024-27072media: usbtv: Remove useless locks in usbtv_video_free()
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.21%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 88% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: usbtv: Remove useless locks in usbtv_video_free() Remove locks calls in usbtv_video_free() because are useless and may led to a deadlock as reported here: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/bisect.txt?x=166dc872180000 Also remove usbtv_stop() call since it will be called when unregistering the device. Before 'c838530d230b' this issue would only be noticed if you disconnect while streaming and now it is noticeable even when disconnecting while not streaming. [hverkuil: fix minor spelling mistake in log message]
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.21% · top 88% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected f3d27f34fdd7701e499617d2c1d94480a98f6d07 – < 4ec4641df57cbdfdc51bb4959afcdbcf5003ddb9
- affected f3d27f34fdd7701e499617d2c1d94480a98f6d07 – < d5ed208d04acf06781d63d30f9fa991e8d609ebd
- affected f3d27f34fdd7701e499617d2c1d94480a98f6d07 – < bdd82c47b22a8befd617b723098b2a41b77373c7
- affected f3d27f34fdd7701e499617d2c1d94480a98f6d07 – < dea46e246ef0f98d89d59a4229157cd9ffb636bf
- affected f3d27f34fdd7701e499617d2c1d94480a98f6d07 – < 3e7d82ebb86e94643bdb30b0b5b077ed27dce1c2
- affected f3d27f34fdd7701e499617d2c1d94480a98f6d07 – < 65e6a2773d655172143cc0b927cdc89549842895
- affected 3.11
- unaffected < 3.11
- unaffected 5.10.227 – ≤ 5.10.*
- unaffected 5.15.168 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 6.1.113 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.55 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.8.2 – ≤ 6.8.*
- unaffected 6.9 – ≤ *
References
References9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ec4641df57cbdfdc51bb4959afcdbcf5003ddb9 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5ed208d04acf06781d63d30f9fa991e8d609ebd (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdd82c47b22a8befd617b723098b2a41b77373c7 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dea46e246ef0f98d89d59a4229157cd9ffb636bf (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e7d82ebb86e94643bdb30b0b5b077ed27dce1c2 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65e6a2773d655172143cc0b927cdc89549842895 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-24334 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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