🛡️ CVE-2024-26893 — kernel

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

firmware: arm_scmi: Fix double free in SMC transport cleanup path

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

firmware: arm_scmi: Fix double free in SMC transport cleanup path

When the generic SCMI code tears down a channel, it calls the chan_free

callback function, defined by each transport. Since multiple protocols

might share the same transport_info member, chan_free() might want to

clean up the same member multiple times within the given SCMI transport

implementation. In this case, it is SMC transport. This will lead to a NULL

pointer dereference at the second time:

| scmi_protocol scmi_dev.1: Enabled polling mode TX channel - prot_id:16

| arm-scmi firmware:scmi: SCMI Notifications - Core Enabled.

| arm-scmi firmware:scmi: unable to communicate with SCMI

| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000

| Mem abort info:

| ESR = 0x0000000096000004

| EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits

| SET = 0, FnV = 0

| EA = 0, S1PTW = 0

| FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault

| Data abort info:

| ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000

| CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0

| GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0

| user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000881ef8000

| [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000

| Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

| Modules linked in:

| CPU: 4 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc2-00124-g455ef3d016c9-dirty #793

| Hardware name: FVP Base RevC (DT)

| pstate: 61400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)

| pc : smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c

| lr : smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c

| Call trace:

| smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c

| idr_for_each+0x68/0xf8

| scmi_cleanup_channels.isra.0+0x2c/0x58

| scmi_probe+0x434/0x734

| platform_probe+0x68/0xd8

| really_probe+0x110/0x27c

| __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x12c

| driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x118

| __driver_attach+0x74/0x128

| bus_for_each_dev+0x78/0xe0

| driver_attach+0x24/0x30

| bus_add_driver+0xe4/0x1e8

| driver_register+0x60/0x128

| __platform_driver_register+0x28/0x34

| scmi_driver_init+0x84/0xc0

| do_one_initcall+0x78/0x33c

| kernel_init_freeable+0x2b8/0x51c

| kernel_init+0x24/0x130

| ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

| Code: f0004701 910a0021 aa1403e5 97b91c70 (b9400280)

| ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Simply check for the struct pointer being NULL before trying to access

its members, to avoid this situation.

This was found when a transport doesn't really work (for instance no SMC

service), the probe routines then tries to clean up, and triggers a crash.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2024-26893 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.8.0 up to 6.8.2)
  • linux-kernel (from 6.8 up to 6.8.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 April 2024 and last revised on 15 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2024-26893 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-04-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-15

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.8.0 6.8.2
linux-kernel 6.8 6.8.2

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