Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56693)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-56693). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

brd: defer automatic disk creation until module initialization succeeds

My colleague Wupeng found the following problems during fault injection:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff809d073
PGD 6e648067 P4D 123ec8067 PUD 123ec4067 PMD 100e38067 PTE 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 755 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3+ #17
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__asan_load8+0x4c/0xa0
...
Call Trace:

blkdev_put_whole+0x41/0x70
bdev_release+0x1a3/0x250
blkdev_release+0x11/0x20
__fput+0x1d7/0x4a0
task_work_run+0xfc/0x180
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1de/0x1f0
do_syscall_64+0x6b/0x170
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

loop_init() is calling loop_add() after __register_blkdev() succeeds and
is ignoring disk_add() failure from loop_add(), for loop_add() failure
is not fatal and successfully created disks are already visible to
bdev_open().

brd_init() is currently calling brd_alloc() before __register_blkdev()
succeeds and is releasing successfully created disks when brd_init()
returns an error. This can cause UAF for the latter two case:

case 1:
T1:
modprobe brd
brd_init
brd_alloc(0) // success
add_disk
disk_scan_partitions
bdev_file_open_by_dev // alloc file
fput // won't free until back to userspace
brd_alloc(1) // failed since mem al…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-56693 has been found in Kernel.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-56693" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-56693 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2 — 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 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2.

🛡️ 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 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2 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":"5.14.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.174"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.120"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.64"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.11.11"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.12.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-56693 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.120-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56693 linux Fixed in: 6.1.123-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56693 linux-hwe-edge