# CVE-2024-56540: accel/ivpu: Prevent recovery invocation during probe and resume

> A race condition in the Intel VPU driver during probe and resume can cause kernel crashes via null pointer dereferences, leading to denial of service.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **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:** Yes
- **Published:** 27 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-56540, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56540, GHSA-h35x-4f36-345v, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56540

## What is CVE-2024-56540?

CVE-2024-56540 is a high-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:

accel/ivpu: Prevent recovery invocation during probe and resume

Refactor IPC send and receive functions to allow correct
handling of operations that should not trigger a recovery process.

Expose ivpu_send_receive_internal(), which is now utilized by the D0i3
entry, DCT initialization, and HWS initialization functions.
These functions have been modified to return error codes gracefully,
rather than initiating recovery.

The updated functions are invoked within ivpu_probe() and ivpu_resume(),
ensuring that any errors encountered during these stages result in a proper
teardown or shutdown sequence. The previous approach of triggering recovery
within these functions could lead to a race condition, potentially causing
undefined behavior and kernel crashes due to null pointer dereferences.

Weakness: CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization), CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-56540?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-56540?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-56540 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56540 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-56540 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-56540 is a high-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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56540 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56540/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56540/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56540
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56540
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-56540

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56540/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.