Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56372)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56372). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.68, 6.12.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: tun: fix tun_napi_alloc_frags()

syzbot reported the following crash [1]

Issue came with the blamed commit. Instead of going through
all the iov components, we keep using the first one
and end up with a malformed skb.

[1]

kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:2849 !
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6230 Comm: syz-executor132 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1-syzkaller-00407-g96b6fcc0ee41 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/25/2024
RIP: 0010:__pskb_pull_tail+0x1568/0x1570 net/core/skbuff.c:2848
Code: 38 c1 0f 8c 32 f1 ff ff 4c 89 f7 e8 92 96 74 f8 e9 25 f1 ff ff e8 e8 ae 09 f8 48 8b 5c 24 08 e9 eb fb ff ff e8 d9 ae 09 f8 90 <0f> 0b 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004cbef30 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff8995c347 RBX: 00000000fffffff2 RCX: ffff88802cf45a00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000fffffff2 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff88807df0c06a R08: ffffffff8995b084 R09: 1ffff1100fbe185c
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100fbe185d R12: ffff888076e85d50
R13: ffff888076e85c80 R14: ffff888076e85cf4 R15: ffff888076e85c80
FS: 00007f0dca6ea6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f0dca6ead58 CR3: 00000000119da000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000…

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-56372 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.68, 6.12.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-56372" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-56372 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.6.68, 6.12.7 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 6.6.68, 6.12.7.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Kernel' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'Kernel' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で Kernel を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade Kernel to 6.6.68, 6.12.7
```
ステージング環境で 6.6.68, 6.12.7 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Linux Kernel

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.4.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.68"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-56372 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56372 linux Fixed in: 6.12.8-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56372 linux-hwe-edge