CVE-2024-53181 um: vector: Do not use drvdata in release
A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's vector driver causes a crash when removing a device, leading to denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-53181?
CVE-2024-53181 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Dec 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:
um: vector: Do not use drvdata in release
The drvdata is not available in release. Let's just use container_of() to get the vector_device instance. Otherwise, removing a vector device will result in a crash:
RIP: 0033:vector_device_release+0xf/0x50 RSP: 00000000e187bc40 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000060028f61 RBX: 00000000600f1baf RCX: 00000000620074e0 RDX: 000000006220b9c0 RSI: 0000000060551c80 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 00000000e187bc50 R08: 00000000603ad594 R09: 00000000e187bb70 R10: 000000000000135a R11: 00000000603ad422 R12: 00000000623ae028 R13: 000000006287a200 R14: 0000000062006d30 R15: 00000000623700b6 Kernel panic - not syncing: Segfault with no mm CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 16 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-g59b723cd2adb #1 Workqueue: events mc_work_proc Stack: 60028f61 623ae028 e187bc80 60276fcd 6220b9c0 603f5820 623ae028 00000000 e187bcb0 603a2bcd 623ae000 62370010 Call Trace: [<60028f61>] ? vector_device_release+0x0/0x50 [<60276fcd>] device_release+0x70/0xba [<603a2bcd>] kobject_put+0xba/0xe7 [<60277265>] put_device+0x19/0x1c [<60281266>] platform_device_put+0x26/0x29 [<60281e5f>] platform_device_unregister+0x2c/0x2e [<60029422>] vector_remove+0x52/0x58 [<60031316>] ? mconsole_reply+0x0/0x50 [<600310c8>] mconsole_remove+0x160/0x1cc [<603b19f4>] ? strlen+0x0/0x15 [<60066611>] ? __dequeue_entity+0x1a9/0x206 [<600666a7>] ? set_next_entity+0x39/0x63 [<6006666e>] ? set_next_entity+0x0/0x63 [<60038fa6>] ? um_set_signals+0x0/0x43 [<6003070c>] mc_work_proc+0x77/0x91 [<60057664>] process_scheduled_works+0x1b3/0x2dd [<60055f32>] ? assign_work+0x0/0x58 [<60057f0a>] worker_thread+0x1e9/0x293 [<6005406f>] ? set_pf_worker+0x0/0x64 [<6005d65d>] ? arch_local_irq_save+0x0/0x2d [<6005d748>] ? kthread_exit+0x0/0x3a [<60057d21>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x293 [<6005dbf1>] kthread+0x126/0x12b [<600219c5>] new_thread_handler+0x85/0xb6
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-53181?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-53181?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2024-53181 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-53181 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-53181, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53181, GHSA-88cq-qg58-jw23, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53181.