Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56623)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56623). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.231, 5.15.174, 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:

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix use after free on unload

System crash is observed with stack trace warning of use after
free. There are 2 signals to tell dpc_thread to terminate (UNLOADING
flag and kthread_stop).

On setting the UNLOADING flag when dpc_thread happens to run at the time
and sees the flag, this causes dpc_thread to exit and clean up
itself. When kthread_stop is called for final cleanup, this causes use
after free.

Remove UNLOADING signal to terminate dpc_thread. Use the kthread_stop
as the main signal to exit dpc_thread.

[596663.812935] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:294!
[596663.812950] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[596663.812957] CPU: 13 PID: 1475935 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G IOE --------- - - 4.18.0-240.el8.x86_64 #1
[596663.812960] Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8, BIOS P70 08/20/2012
[596663.812974] RIP: 0010:__slab_free+0x17d/0x360

...
[596663.813008] Call Trace:
[596663.813022] ? __dentry_kill+0x121/0x170
[596663.813030] ? _cond_resched+0x15/0x30
[596663.813034] ? _cond_resched+0x15/0x30
[596663.813039] ? wait_for_completion+0x35/0x190
[596663.813048] ? try_to_wake_up+0x63/0x540
[596663.813055] free_task+0x5a/0x60
[596663.813061] kthread_stop+0xf3/0x100
[596663.813103] qla2x00_remove_one+0x284/0x440 [qla2xxx]

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-56623 has been found in Kernel.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.231, 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.12.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-56623" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-56623 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 5.10.231, 5.15.174, 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: ?. Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 5.10.231, 5.15.174, 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 5.10.231, 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.12.5
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.231, 5.15.174, 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":"4.8.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.231"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.174"}]},{"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-2024-56623 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.120-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56623 linux Fixed in: 5.10.234-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56623 linux-azure