{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56617 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-56617 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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-56617 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-56617 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.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56617 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56617/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56617/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-56617","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56617/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-56617","record":{"aliases":["AZL-55745","BELL-CVE-2024-56617","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56617","GHSA-pq66-h8qj-7xg9","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2024-56617","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56617"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel cacheinfo subsystem during CPU hotplug can cause a system crash, requiring a kernel patch.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncacheinfo: Allocate memory during CPU hotplug if not done from the primary CPU\n\nCommit\n\n  5944ce092b97 (\"arch_topology: Build cacheinfo from primary CPU\")\n\nadds functionality that architectures can use to optionally allocate and\nbuild cacheinfo early during boot. Commit\n\n  6539cffa9495 (\"cacheinfo: Add arch specific early level initializer\")\n\nlets secondary CPUs correct (and reallocate memory) cacheinfo data if\nneeded.\n\nIf the early build functionality is not used and cacheinfo does not need\ncorrection, memory for cacheinfo is never allocated. x86 does not use\nthe early build functionality. Consequently, during the cacheinfo CPU\nhotplug callback, last_level_cache_is_valid() attempts to dereference\na NULL pointer:\n\n  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000100\n  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not present page\n  PGD 0 P4D 0\n  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEPMT SMP NOPTI\n  CPU: 0 PID 19 Comm: cpuhp/0 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc2 #1\n  RIP: 0010: last_level_cache_is_valid+0x95/0xe0a\n\nAllocate memory for cacheinfo during the cacheinfo CPU hotplug callback\nif not done earlier.\n\nMoreover, before determining the validity of the last-level cache info,\nensure that it has been allocated. Simply checking for non-zero\ncache_leaves() is not sufficient, as some architectures (e.g., Intel\nprocessors) have non-zero cache_leaves() before allocation.\n\nDereferencing NULL cacheinfo can occur in update_per_cpu_data_slice_size().\nThis function iterates over all online CPUs. However, a CPU may have come\nonline recently, but its cacheinfo may not have been allocated yet.\n\nWhile here, remove an unnecessary indentation in allocate_cache_info().\n\n  [ bp: Massage. ]","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"cacheinfo: Allocate memory during CPU hotplug if not done from the primary CPU","id":"CVE-2024-56617","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"pmdomain: imx: gpcv2: Adjust delay after power up handshake","id":"CVE-2024-56618"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"drm/dp_mst: Fix MST sideband message body length check","id":"CVE-2024-56616"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-12-27","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel cacheinfo subsystem during CPU hotplug can cause a system crash, requiring a kernel patch.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56617/"}