CVE-2024-56768

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56768
Import Source
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JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-56768
Downstream
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Published
2025-01-06T17:15:43Z
Modified
2025-01-16T05:00:04Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

bpf: Fix bpfgetsmpprocessorid() on !CONFIG_SMP

On x86-64 calling bpfgetsmpprocessorid() in a kernel with CONFIGSMP disabled can trigger the following bug, as pcpuhot is unavailable:

[ 8.471774] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000936a290c [ 8.471849] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 8.471881] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

Fix by inlining a return 0 in the !CONFIG_SMP case.

References

Affected packages

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.12.8-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}