CVE-2024-53067 scsi: ufs: core: Start the RTC update work later

What is CVE-2024-53067?

CVE-2024-53067 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Nov 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

scsi: ufs: core: Start the RTC update work later

The RTC update work involves runtime resuming the UFS controller. Hence, only start the RTC update work after runtime power management in the UFS driver has been fully initialized. This patch fixes the following kernel crash:

Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Workqueue: events ufshcd_rtc_work Call trace: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x34/0x8c (P) pm_runtime_get_if_active+0x24/0x9c (L) pm_runtime_get_if_active+0x24/0x9c ufshcd_rtc_work+0x138/0x1b4 process_one_work+0x148/0x288 worker_thread+0x2cc/0x3d4 kthread+0x110/0x114 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-53067?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-53067?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2024-53067 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-53067 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-53067, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53067, GHSA-mh8w-gxgh-8grm, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53067.