CVE-2024-58077 ASoC: soc-pcm: don't use soc_pcm_ret() on .prepare callback
A flaw in the Linux kernel's ASoC subsystem allows userspace to trigger excessive logging, potentially causing a denial of service by exhausting disk space or syslog resources.
- 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-2024-58077?
CVE-2024-58077 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 Mar 2025. 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:
ASoC: soc-pcm: don't use soc_pcm_ret() on .prepare callback
commit 1f5664351410 ("ASoC: lower "no backend DAIs enabled for ... Port" log severity") ignores -EINVAL error message on common soc_pcm_ret(). It is used from many functions, ignoring -EINVAL is over-kill.
The reason why -EINVAL was ignored was it really should only be used upon invalid parameters coming from userspace and in that case we don't want to log an error since we do not want to give userspace a way to do a denial-of-service attack on the syslog / diskspace.
So don't use soc_pcm_ret() on .prepare callback is better idea.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-58077?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-58077?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-58077 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-58077 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-58077, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58077, GHSA-23x3-fcgm-qf4c, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2024-58077, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2024-58077, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58077.