Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56559)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56559). 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:

mm/vmalloc: combine all TLB flush operations of KASAN shadow virtual address into one operation

When compiling kernel source 'make -j $(nproc)' with the up-and-running
KASAN-enabled kernel on a 256-core machine, the following soft lockup is
shown:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#28 stuck for 22s! [kworker/28:1:1760]
CPU: 28 PID: 1760 Comm: kworker/28:1 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.10.0-rc5 #95
Workqueue: events drain_vmap_area_work
RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many_cond+0x1d8/0xbb0
Code: 38 c8 7c 08 84 c9 0f 85 49 08 00 00 8b 45 08 a8 01 74 2e 48 89 f1 49 89 f7 48 c1 e9 03 41 83 e7 07 4c 01 e9 41 83 c7 03 f3 90 <0f> b6 01 41 38 c7 7c 08 84 c0 0f 85 d4 06 00 00 8b 45 08 a8 01 75
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000cb3fb60 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000011 RBX: ffff8883bc4469c0 RCX: ffffed10776e9949
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffff8883bb74ca48 RDI: ffffffff8434dc50
RBP: ffff8883bb74ca40 R08: ffff888103585dc0 R09: ffff8884533a1800
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: ffffffffffffffff R12: ffffed1077888d39
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffed1077888d38 R15: 0000000000000003
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8883bc400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005577b5c8d158 CR3: 0000000004850000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:

? watchdog_timer_fn+0x2cd/0x390
? __pfx_watchdog_timer_fn+0x10/0x10
? __hrtimer_run_queues+0x300/0x6d0
? sched_clock_cpu+0x69/0x4e0
? __pfx___hrtimer_run_que…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-56559 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-2024-56559" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-56559 (Kernel)
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":"6.9.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-56559 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56559 linux Fixed in: 6.12.5-1