{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56678 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-56678 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 28 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-2024-56678 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-56678 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 28 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-2024-56678 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-2024-56678/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56678/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-56678","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56678/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-56678","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2024-56678","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56678","GHSA-v5r3-wf29-qq37","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56678"],"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 local attacker can trigger a kernel crash by reading /proc/kcore, causing a use-after-free error in the KFENCE memory debugging subsystem.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-416","name":"Use After Free"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/mm/fault: Fix kfence page fault reporting\n\ncopy_from_kernel_nofault() can be called when doing read of /proc/kcore.\n/proc/kcore can have some unmapped kfence objects which when read via\ncopy_from_kernel_nofault() can cause page faults. Since *_nofault()\nfunctions define their own fixup table for handling fault, use that\ninstead of asking kfence to handle such faults.\n\nHence we search the exception tables for the nip which generated the\nfault. If there is an entry then we let the fixup table handler handle the\npage fault by returning an error from within ___do_page_fault().\n\nThis can be easily triggered if someone tries to do dd from /proc/kcore.\neg. dd if=/proc/kcore of=/dev/null bs=1M\n\nSome example false negatives:\n\n  ===============================\n  BUG: KFENCE: invalid read in copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x9c/0x1a0\n  Invalid read at 0xc0000000fdff0000:\n   copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x9c/0x1a0\n   0xc00000000665f950\n   read_kcore_iter+0x57c/0xa04\n   proc_reg_read_iter+0xe4/0x16c\n   vfs_read+0x320/0x3ec\n   ksys_read+0x90/0x154\n   system_call_exception+0x120/0x310\n   system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec\n\n  BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x9c/0x1a0\n  Use-after-free read at 0xc0000000fe050000 (in kfence-#2):\n   copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x9c/0x1a0\n   0xc00000000665f950\n   read_kcore_iter+0x57c/0xa04\n   proc_reg_read_iter+0xe4/0x16c\n   vfs_read+0x320/0x3ec\n   ksys_read+0x90/0x154\n   system_call_exception+0x120/0x310\n   system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec","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":"powerpc/mm/fault: Fix kfence page fault reporting","id":"CVE-2024-56678","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"octeontx2-pf: handle otx2_mbox_get_rsp errors in otx2_common.c","id":"CVE-2024-56679"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"powerpc/fadump: Move fadump_cma_init to setup_arch() after initmem_init()","id":"CVE-2024-56677"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-12-28","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":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel crash by reading /proc/kcore, causing a use-after-free error in the KFENCE memory debugging subsystem.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56678/"}