Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56553)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56553). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

binder: fix memleak of proc->delivered_freeze

If a freeze notification is cleared with BC_CLEAR_FREEZE_NOTIFICATION
before calling binder_freeze_notification_done(), then it is detached
from its reference (e.g. ref->freeze) but the work remains queued in
proc->delivered_freeze. This leads to a memory leak when the process
exits as any pending entries in proc->delivered_freeze are not freed:

unreferenced object 0xffff38e8cfa36180 (size 64):
comm "binder-util", pid 655, jiffies 4294936641
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
b8 e9 9e c8 e8 38 ff ff b8 e9 9e c8 e8 38 ff ff .....8.......8..
0b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3c 1f 4b 00 00 00 00 00 ........<.K.....
backtrace (crc 95983b32):
[<000000000d0582cf>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
[<000000009c99a513>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x208/0x280
[<00000000313b1704>] binder_thread_write+0xdec/0x439c
[<000000000cbd33bb>] binder_ioctl+0x1b68/0x22cc
[<000000002bbedeeb>] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x124/0x190
[<00000000b439adee>] invoke_syscall+0x6c/0x254
[<00000000173558fc>] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xac/0x230
[<0000000084f72311>] do_el0_svc+0x40/0x58
[<000000008b872457>] el0_svc+0x38/0x78
[<00000000ee778653>] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x12c
[<00000000a8ec61bf>] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194

This patch fixes the leak by ensuring that any pending entries in
proc->delivered_freeze are freed during binder_defe…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-56553 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-56553" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-56553 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.12.4 — 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 6.12.4.

🛡️ 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 6.12.4
```
ステージング環境で 6.12.4 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":"6.12.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-56553 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56553 linux Fixed in: 6.12.5-1