Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56577)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56577). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.64, 6.12.4 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: mtk-jpeg: Fix null-ptr-deref during unload module
The workqueue should be destroyed in mtk_jpeg_core.c since commit
09aea13ecf6f ("media: mtk-jpeg: refactor some variables"), otherwise
the below calltrace can be easily triggered.
[ 677.862514] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dfff800000000023
[ 677.863633] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000118-0x000000000000011f]
...
[ 677.879654] CPU: 6 PID: 1071 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G O 6.8.12-mtk+gfa1a78e5d24b+ #17
...
[ 677.882838] pc : destroy_workqueue+0x3c/0x770
[ 677.883413] lr : mtk_jpegdec_destroy_workqueue+0x70/0x88 [mtk_jpeg_dec_hw]
[ 677.884314] sp : ffff80008ad974f0
[ 677.884744] x29: ffff80008ad974f0 x28: ffff0000d7115580 x27: ffff0000dd691070
[ 677.885669] x26: ffff0000dd691408 x25: ffff8000844af3e0 x24: ffff80008ad97690
[ 677.886592] x23: ffff0000e051d400 x22: ffff0000dd691010 x21: dfff800000000000
[ 677.887515] x20: 0000000000000000 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: ffff800085397ac0
[ 677.888438] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffff8000801b87c8 x15: 1ffff000115b2e10
[ 677.889361] x14: 00000000f1f1f1f1 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: ffff7000115b2e4d
[ 677.890285] x11: 1ffff000115b2e4c x10: ffff7000115b2e4c x9 : ffff80000aa43e90
[ 677.891208] x8 : 00008fffeea4d1b4 x7 : ffff80008ad97267 x6 : 0000000000000001
[ 677.892131] x5 : ffff80008ad97260 x4 : ffff7000115b2e4d x3 : 0000000000000000
[ 677.89…
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-56577 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.64, 6.12.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-56577" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2024-56577 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.6.64, 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.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.6.64, 6.12.4.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
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
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1Identify 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。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kernel to 6.6.64, 6.12.4ステージング環境で 6.6.64, 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。
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3Post-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
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-56577 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56577 linux Fixed in: 6.12.5-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56577 linux-hwe-edge
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org