Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56668)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56668). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.6 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

iommu/vt-d: Fix qi_batch NULL pointer with nested parent domain

The qi_batch is allocated when assigning cache tag for a domain. While
for nested parent domain, it is missed. Hence, when trying to map pages
to the nested parent, NULL dereference occurred. Also, there is potential
memleak since there is no lock around domain->qi_batch allocation.

To solve it, add a helper for qi_batch allocation, and call it in both
the __cache_tag_assign_domain() and __cache_tag_assign_parent_domain().

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000200
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 8104795067 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 223 UID: 0 PID: 4357 Comm: qemu-system-x86 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1-00028-g4b50c3c3b998-dirty #2632
Call Trace:
? __die+0x24/0x70
? page_fault_oops+0x80/0x150
? do_user_addr_fault+0x63/0x7b0
? exc_page_fault+0x7c/0x220
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
? cache_tag_flush_range_np+0x13c/0x260
intel_iommu_iotlb_sync_map+0x1a/0x30
iommu_map+0x61/0xf0
batch_to_domain+0x188/0x250
iopt_area_fill_domains+0x125/0x320
? rcu_is_watching+0x11/0x50
iopt_map_pages+0x63/0x100
iopt_map_common.isra.0+0xa7/0x190
iopt_map_user_pages+0x6a/0x80
iommufd_ioas_map+0xcd/0x1d0
iommufd_fops_ioctl+0x118/0x1c0
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x71/0x140
entry_SYSCALL_6…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-56668 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-56668" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-56668 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.12.6 — 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 6.12.6.

🛡️ 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 6.12.6
```
ステージング環境で 6.12.6 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":"6.12.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-56668 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56668 linux Fixed in: 6.12.6-1