Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56616)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56616). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.233, 5.15.176, 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.12.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

drm/dp_mst: Fix MST sideband message body length check

Fix the MST sideband message body length check, which must be at least 1
byte accounting for the message body CRC (aka message data CRC) at the
end of the message.

This fixes a case where an MST branch device returns a header with a
correct header CRC (indicating a correctly received body length), with
the body length being incorrectly set to 0. This will later lead to a
memory corruption in drm_dp_sideband_append_payload() and the following
errors in dmesg:

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c:786:25
index -1 is out of range for type 'u8 [48]'
Call Trace:
drm_dp_sideband_append_payload+0x33d/0x350 [drm_display_helper]
drm_dp_get_one_sb_msg+0x3ce/0x5f0 [drm_display_helper]
drm_dp_mst_hpd_irq_handle_event+0xc8/0x1580 [drm_display_helper]

memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 18446744073709551615) of single field "&msg->msg[msg->curlen]" at drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c:791 (size 256)
Call Trace:
drm_dp_sideband_append_payload+0x324/0x350 [drm_display_helper]
drm_dp_get_one_sb_msg+0x3ce/0x5f0 [drm_display_helper]
drm_dp_mst_hpd_irq_handle_event+0xc8/0x1580 [drm_display_helper]

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-56616 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.233, 5.15.176, 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.12.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-56616" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-56616 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.233, 5.15.176, 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 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 5.10.233, 5.15.176, 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 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 5.10.233, 5.15.176, 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.12.5
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.233, 5.15.176, 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 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":"3.17.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.233"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.176"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.120"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.66"}]},{"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-2024-56616 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.120-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56616 linux Fixed in: 5.10.234-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56616 linux