Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-57926)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-57926). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.72, 6.12.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

drm/mediatek: Set private->all_drm_private[i]->drm to NULL if mtk_drm_bind returns err

The pointer need to be set to NULL, otherwise KASAN complains about
use-after-free. Because in mtk_drm_bind, all private's drm are set
as follows.

private->all_drm_private[i]->drm = drm;

And drm will be released by drm_dev_put in case mtk_drm_kms_init returns
failure. However, the shutdown path still accesses the previous allocated
memory in drm_atomic_helper_shutdown.

[ 84.874820] watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!
[ 86.512054] ==================================================================
[ 86.513162] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in drm_atomic_helper_shutdown+0x33c/0x378
[ 86.514258] Read of size 8 at addr ffff0000d46fc068 by task shutdown/1
[ 86.515213]
[ 86.515455] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: shutdown Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1-mtk+gfa1a78e5d24b-dirty #55
[ 86.516752] Hardware name: Unknown Product/Unknown Product, BIOS 2022.10 10/01/2022
[ 86.517960] Call trace:
[ 86.518333] show_stack+0x20/0x38 (C)
[ 86.518891] dump_stack_lvl+0x90/0xd0
[ 86.519443] print_report+0xf8/0x5b0
[ 86.519985] kasan_report+0xb4/0x100
[ 86.520526] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x20/0x30
[ 86.521240] drm_atomic_helper_shutdown+0x33c/0x378
[ 86.521966] mtk_drm_shutdown+0x54/0x80
[ 86.522546] platform_shutdown+0x64/0x90
[ 86.523137] device_shutdown+0x260/0x5b8
[ 86.523728] kernel_restart+0x78/…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-57926 has been found in Kernel.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.72, 6.12.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-57926" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-57926 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.6.72, 6.12.10 — 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 6.6.72, 6.12.10.

🛡️ 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 6.6.72, 6.12.10
```
ステージング環境で 6.6.72, 6.12.10 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":"6.6.72"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-57926 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57926 linux Fixed in: 6.12.10-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57926 linux-hwe-edge