Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56649)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56649). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

net: enetc: Do not configure preemptible TCs if SIs do not support

Both ENETC PF and VF drivers share enetc_setup_tc_mqprio() to configure
MQPRIO. And enetc_setup_tc_mqprio() calls enetc_change_preemptible_tcs()
to configure preemptible TCs. However, only PF is able to configure
preemptible TCs. Because only PF has related registers, while VF does not
have these registers. So for VF, its hw->port pointer is NULL. Therefore,
VF will access an invalid pointer when accessing a non-existent register,
which will cause a crash issue. The simplified log is as follows.

root@ls1028ardb:~# tc qdisc add dev eno0vf0 parent root handle 100:
mqprio num_tc 4 map 0 0 1 1 2 2 3 3 queues 1@0 1@1 1@2 1@3 hw 1
[ 187.290775] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000000001f00
[ 187.424831] pc : enetc_mm_commit_preemptible_tcs+0x1c4/0x400
[ 187.430518] lr : enetc_mm_commit_preemptible_tcs+0x30c/0x400
[ 187.511140] Call trace:
[ 187.513588] enetc_mm_commit_preemptible_tcs+0x1c4/0x400
[ 187.518918] enetc_setup_tc_mqprio+0x180/0x214
[ 187.523374] enetc_vf_setup_tc+0x1c/0x30
[ 187.527306] mqprio_enable_offload+0x144/0x178
[ 187.531766] mqprio_init+0x3ec/0x668
[ 187.535351] qdisc_create+0x15c/0x488
[ 187.539023] tc_modify_qdisc+0x398/0x73c
[ 187.542958] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x128/0x378
[ 187.547064] netlink_rcv_skb+0x60/0x130
[ 187.550910] rtnetlink_rcv+0x18/0x24
[ 187.554492] netlink_…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-56649 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.66, 6.12.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-56649" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-56649 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 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 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 6.6.66, 6.12.5
```
ステージング環境で 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":"6.4.0"},{"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-2024-56649 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56649 linux Fixed in: 6.12.5-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56649 linux-hwe-edge