Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56612)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56612). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

mm/gup: handle NULL pages in unpin_user_pages()

The recent addition of "pofs" (pages or folios) handling to gup has a
flaw: it assumes that unpin_user_pages() handles NULL pages in the pages**
array. That's not the case, as I discovered when I ran on a new
configuration on my test machine.

Fix this by skipping NULL pages in unpin_user_pages(), just like
unpin_folios() already does.

Details: when booting on x86 with "numa=fake=2 movablecore=4G" on Linux
6.12, and running this:

tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_longterm

...I get the following crash:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
RIP: 0010:sanity_check_pinned_pages+0x3a/0x2d0
...
Call Trace:

? __die_body+0x66/0xb0
? page_fault_oops+0x30c/0x3b0
? do_user_addr_fault+0x6c3/0x720
? irqentry_enter+0x34/0x60
? exc_page_fault+0x68/0x100
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
? sanity_check_pinned_pages+0x3a/0x2d0
unpin_user_pages+0x24/0xe0
check_and_migrate_movable_pages_or_folios+0x455/0x4b0
__gup_longterm_locked+0x3bf/0x820
? mmap_read_lock_killable+0x12/0x50
? __pfx_mmap_read_lock_killable+0x10/0x10
pin_user_pages+0x66/0xa0
gup_test_ioctl+0x358/0xb20
__se_sys_ioctl+0x6b/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x150
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-56612 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-56612" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-56612 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 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 6.12.5.

🛡️ 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 6.12.5
```
ステージング環境で 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":"6.12.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.5"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-56612 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56612 linux Fixed in: 6.12.5-1