Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56609)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56609). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.136, 6.6.70, 6.12.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

wifi: rtw88: use ieee80211_purge_tx_queue() to purge TX skb

When removing kernel modules by:
rmmod rtw88_8723cs rtw88_8703b rtw88_8723x rtw88_sdio rtw88_core

Driver uses skb_queue_purge() to purge TX skb, but not report tx status
causing "Have pending ack frames!" warning. Use ieee80211_purge_tx_queue()
to correct this.

Since ieee80211_purge_tx_queue() doesn't take locks, to prevent racing
between TX work and purge TX queue, flush and destroy TX work in advance.

wlan0: deauthenticating from aa:f5:fd:60:4c:a8 by local
choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
------------[ cut here ]------------
Have pending ack frames!
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 9232 at net/mac80211/main.c:1691
ieee80211_free_ack_frame+0x5c/0x90 [mac80211]
CPU: 3 PID: 9232 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G C
6.10.1-200.fc40.aarch64 #1
Hardware name: pine64 Pine64 PinePhone Braveheart
(1.1)/Pine64 PinePhone Braveheart (1.1), BIOS 2024.01 01/01/2024
pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : ieee80211_free_ack_frame+0x5c/0x90 [mac80211]
lr : ieee80211_free_ack_frame+0x5c/0x90 [mac80211]
sp : ffff80008c1b37b0
x29: ffff80008c1b37b0 x28: ffff000003be8000 x27: 0000000000000000
x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff000003dc14b8 x24: ffff80008c1b37d0
x23: ffff000000ff9f80 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: 000000007fffffff
x20: ffff80007c7e93d8 x19: ffff00006e66f400 x18: 00000000000…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-56609 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.136, 6.6.70, 6.12.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-56609" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-56609 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.136, 6.6.70, 6.12.5 — 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 6.1.136, 6.6.70, 6.12.5.

🛡️ 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 6.1.136, 6.6.70, 6.12.5
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.136, 6.6.70, 6.12.5 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":"5.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.136"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.70"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.5"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-56609 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.140-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56609 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56609 linux