🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56617
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cacheinfo: Allocate memory during CPU hotplug if not done from the primary CPU Commit 5944ce092b97 ("arch_topology: Build cacheinfo from primary CPU") adds functionality that architectures can use to optionally allocate and build cacheinfo early during boot. Commit 6539cffa9495 ("cacheinfo: Add arch specific early level initializer") lets secondary CPUs correct (and reallocate memory) cacheinfo data if needed. If the early build functionality is not used and cacheinfo does not need correction, memory for cacheinfo is never allocated. x86 does not use the early build functionality. Consequently, during the cacheinfo CPU hotplug callback, last_level_cache_is_valid() attempts to dereference a NULL pointer: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000100 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEPMT SMP NOPTI CPU: 0 PID 19 Comm: cpuhp/0 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc2 #1 RIP: 0010: last_level_cache_is_valid+0x95/0xe0a Allocate memory for cacheinfo during the cacheinfo CPU hotplug callback if not done earlier. Moreover, before determining the validity of the last-level cache info, ensure that it has been allocated. Simply checking for non-zero cache_leaves() is not sufficient, as some architectures (e.g., Intel processors) have non-zero cache_leaves() before allocation. Dereferencing NULL cacheinfo can occur in update_per_cpu_data_slice_size(). This function iterates over all online CPUs. However, a CPU may have come online recently, but its cacheinfo may not have been allocated yet. While here, remove an unnecessary indentation in allocate_cache_info(). [ bp: Massage. ]

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
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 OSV
Published 2024-12-27
Updated 2026-06-09
Modified 2026-06-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux
linux-allwinner-5.19
linux-aws
linux-aws-5.0
linux-aws-5.11
linux-aws-5.13
linux-aws-5.19
linux-aws-5.3
linux-aws-5.8
linux-aws-6.2
linux-aws-6.5
linux-aws-6.8
linux-aws-fips
linux-azure
linux-azure-5.11
linux-azure-5.13
linux-azure-5.19
linux-azure-5.3
linux-azure-5.8
linux-azure-6.11 6.11.0-1012.12~24.04.1
linux-azure-6.2
linux-azure-6.5
linux-azure-6.8
linux-azure-edge
linux-azure-fde
linux-azure-fde-5.19
linux-azure-fde-6.2
linux-azure-fde-6.8
linux-azure-fips
linux-azure-nvidia
linux-bluefield
linux-fips
linux-gcp
linux-gcp-5.11
linux-gcp-5.13
linux-gcp-5.19
linux-gcp-5.3
linux-gcp-5.8
linux-gcp-6.11 6.11.0-1011.11~24.04.1
linux-gcp-6.2
linux-gcp-6.5
linux-gcp-6.8
linux-gcp-fips
linux-gke
linux-gke-4.15
linux-gke-5.15
linux-gke-5.4
linux-gkeop
linux-gkeop-5.15
linux-gkeop-5.4
linux-hwe
linux-hwe-5.11
linux-hwe-5.13
linux-hwe-5.19
linux-hwe-5.8
linux-hwe-6.11 6.11.0-21.21~24.04.1
linux-hwe-6.2
linux-hwe-6.5
linux-hwe-6.8
linux-hwe-edge
linux-ibm
linux-ibm-6.8
linux-intel
linux-intel-5.13
linux-intel-iot-realtime
linux-lowlatency
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8
linux-nvidia
linux-nvidia-6.11 6.11.0-1007.7
linux-nvidia-6.2
linux-nvidia-6.5
linux-nvidia-6.8
linux-nvidia-lowlatency
linux-nvidia-tegra
linux-oem
linux-oem-5.10
linux-oem-5.13
linux-oem-5.14
linux-oem-5.17
linux-oem-5.6
linux-oem-6.0
linux-oem-6.1
linux-oem-6.11 6.11.0-1017.17
linux-oem-6.5
linux-oem-6.8
linux-oracle
linux-oracle-5.0
linux-oracle-5.11
linux-oracle-5.13
linux-oracle-5.3
linux-oracle-5.8
linux-oracle-6.5
linux-oracle-6.8
linux-raspi
linux-raspi-realtime
linux-raspi2
linux-realtime
linux-realtime-6.8
linux-riscv
linux-riscv-5.11
linux-riscv-5.19
linux-riscv-5.8
linux-riscv-6.5
linux-riscv-6.8
linux-starfive-5.19
linux-starfive-6.2
linux-starfive-6.5
linux-xilinx

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