Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56643)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56643). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.4.287, 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:

dccp: Fix memory leak in dccp_feat_change_recv

If dccp_feat_push_confirm() fails after new value for SP feature was accepted
without reconciliation ('entry == NULL' branch), memory allocated for that value
with dccp_feat_clone_sp_val() is never freed.

Here is the kmemleak stack for this:

unreferenced object 0xffff88801d4ab488 (size 8):
comm "syz-executor310", pid 1127, jiffies 4295085598 (age 41.666s)
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
01 b4 4a 1d 80 88 ff ff ..J.....
backtrace:
[<00000000db7cabfe>] kmemdup+0x23/0x50 mm/util.c:128
[<0000000019b38405>] kmemdup include/linux/string.h:465 [inline]
[<0000000019b38405>] dccp_feat_clone_sp_val net/dccp/feat.c:371 [inline]
[<0000000019b38405>] dccp_feat_clone_sp_val net/dccp/feat.c:367 [inline]
[<0000000019b38405>] dccp_feat_change_recv net/dccp/feat.c:1145 [inline]
[<0000000019b38405>] dccp_feat_parse_options+0x1196/0x2180 net/dccp/feat.c:1416
[<00000000b1f6d94a>] dccp_parse_options+0xa2a/0x1260 net/dccp/options.c:125
[<0000000030d7b621>] dccp_rcv_state_process+0x197/0x13d0 net/dccp/input.c:650
[<000000001f74c72e>] dccp_v4_do_rcv+0xf9/0x1a0 net/dccp/ipv4.c:688
[<00000000a6c24128>] sk_backlog_rcv include/net/sock.h:1041 [inline]
[<00000000a6c24128>] __release_sock+0x139/0x3b0 net/core/sock.c:2570
[<00000000cf1f3a53>] release_sock+0x54/0x1b0 net/core/sock.c:3111
[<000000008422fa23>] ine…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-56643 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.4.287, 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-2024-56643" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-56643 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 5.4.287, 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: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 5.4.287, 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 5.4.287, 5.10.231, 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.12.5
```
ステージング環境で 5.4.287, 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":"2.6.29"},{"fixed":"5.4.287"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"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-2024-56643 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.120-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56643 linux Fixed in: 5.10.234-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56643 linux