Skip to content
Heist/ feed
Back to feed
HighFix available

openrisc: traps: Don't send signals to kernel mode threads

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: openrisc: traps: Don't send signals to kernel mode threads OpenRISC exception handling sends signals to user processes on floating point exceptions and trap instructions (for debugging) among others. There is a bug where the trap handling logic may send signals to kernel threads, we should not send these signals to kernel threads, if that happens we treat it as an error. This patch adds conditions to die if the kernel receives these exceptions in kernel mode code.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
6.6.33, 6.8.12, 6.9.3
CVEs
CVE-2024-38614
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
3 Nov 2026, 03:43 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

openrisc: traps: Don't send signals to kernel mode threads

core-osv · Original source

Published 19 Jun 2024, 13:56 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: openrisc: traps: Don't send signals to kernel mode threads OpenRISC exception handling sends signals to user processes on floating point exceptions and trap instructions (for debugging) among others. There is a bug where the trap handling logic may send signals to kernel threads, we should not send these signals to kernel threads, if that happens we treat it as an error. This patch adds conditions to die if the kernel receives these exceptions in kernel mode code.

osv:CVE-2024-38614

Kernel

Fixed versions: 6.6.33, 6.8.12, 6.9.3

Complete source record
{
  "id": "001e9dc59ba1f21c69a489b0c7bbb363ac4e976f0fa7a8eaaba475cef3f9a97d",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38614",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "openrisc: traps: Don't send signals to kernel mode threads",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: openrisc: traps: Don't send signals to kernel mode threads OpenRISC exception handling sends signals to user processes on floating point exceptions and trap instructions (for debugging) among others. There is a bug where the trap handling logic may send signals to kernel threads, we should not send these signals to kernel threads, if that happens we treat it as an error. This patch adds conditions to die if the kernel receives these exceptions in kernel mode code.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-38614",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "Kernel",
          "evidence": "/affected/1/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [
          {
            "value": "6.6.33",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/ranges"
          },
          {
            "value": "6.8.12",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/ranges"
          },
          {
            "value": "6.9.3",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/ranges"
          }
        ],
        "affected_versions": []
      }
    ],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2024-38614",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2024-38614"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "27267655c5313ba0f5a3caa9ad35d887d9a12574"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "c0ed9a711e3392d73e857faa031d8d349c0d70db"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "075c0405b0d7d9fc490609e988a3af0069596538"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "cea9d0015c140af39477dd5eeb9b20233a45daa9"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "c88cfb5cea5f8f9868ef02cc9ce9183a26dcf20f"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-38614.json"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "6.4.0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "6.6.33"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "6.7.0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "6.8.12"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "6.9.0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "6.9.3"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "Kernel",
            "ecosystem": "Linux"
          },
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-38614.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:26.083236498Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/075c0405b0d7d9fc490609e988a3af0069596538",
        "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0ed9a711e3392d73e857faa031d8d349c0d70db",
        "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c88cfb5cea5f8f9868ef02cc9ce9183a26dcf20f",
        "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cea9d0015c140af39477dd5eeb9b20233a45daa9",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38614.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38614",
        "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "Linux",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38614.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2024-38614",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 492240,
  "published_at": "2024-06-19T13:56:14.753+00:00"
}