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Medium 5.5

Vulnerability in Linux kernel

CVE-2024-56545 First seen on SecPulse

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-56545 has been found in Linux kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Linux kernel CVE-2024-56545" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-56545 (Linux kernel) — CVSS v3 5.5
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
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 Linux kernel.

Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Linux kernel.

Severity

Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

How to fix

Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.

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. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.

Response actions

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

  1. 1
    Identify exposureidentify
    Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.

    資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Linux kernel を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。

  2. 2
    Post-deployment verificationverify
    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

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed
Linux Kernel
< 5.10.271
≥ 5.11.0, < 5.15.222
≥ 5.16.0, < 6.1.189
≥ 6.2.0, < 6.6.64
≥ 6.5.0, < 6.11.11
≥ 6.7.0, < 6.12.2
5.10.271
5.15.222
6.1.189
6.6.64
6.11.11
6.12.2

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Original description The description as published by the source.

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

HID: hyperv: streamline driver probe to avoid devres issues

It was found that unloading 'hid_hyperv' module results in a devres
complaint:

...
hv_vmbus: unregistering driver hid_hyperv
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 3983 at drivers/base/devres.c:691 devres_release_group+0x1f2/0x2c0
...
Call Trace:

? devres_release_group+0x1f2/0x2c0
? __warn+0xd1/0x1c0
? devres_release_group+0x1f2/0x2c0
? report_bug+0x32a/0x3c0
? handle_bug+0x53/0xa0
? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x50
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
? devres_release_group+0x1f2/0x2c0
? devres_release_group+0x90/0x2c0
? rcu_is_watching+0x15/0xb0
? __pfx_devres_release_group+0x10/0x10
hid_device_remove+0xf5/0x220
device_release_driver_internal+0x371/0x540
? klist_put+0xf3/0x170
bus_remove_device+0x1f1/0x3f0
device_del+0x33f/0x8c0
? __pfx_device_del+0x10/0x10
? cleanup_srcu_struct+0x337/0x500
hid_destroy_device+0xc8/0x130
mousevsc_remove+0xd2/0x1d0 [hid_hyperv]
device_release_driver_internal+0x371/0x540
driver_detach+0xc5/0x180
bus_remove_driver+0x11e/0x2a0
? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x160/0x5e0
vmbus_driver_unregister+0x62/0x2b0 [hv_vmbus]
...

And the issue seems to be that the corresponding devres group is not
allocated. Normally, devres_open_group() is called from
__hid_device_probe() but Hyper-V HID driver overrides 'hid_dev->driver'
with 'mousevsc_hid_driver' stub and basically…

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory

References

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