CVE-2024-53075

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.11-6.11.6 - Reference Count Error in RISC-V CPU Node Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: Prevent a bad reference count on CPU nodes When populating cache leaves we previously fetched the CPU device node at the very beginning. But when ACPI is enabled we go through a specific branch which returns early and does not call 'of_node_put' for the node that was acquired. Since we are not using a CPU device node for the ACPI code anyways, we can simply move the initialization of it just passed the ACPI block, and we are guaranteed to have an 'of_node_put' call for the acquired node. This prevents a bad reference count of the CPU device node. Moreover, the previous function did not check for errors when acquiring the device node, so a return -ENOENT has been added for that case.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 11.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (10)
linux/Kernel 6.11.0 - 6.11.7linux
Linux/Linux < 6.11
Linux/Linux 6.11
Linux/Linux 6.11.7 - 6.11.*
Linux/Linux 6.12
Linux/Linux 604f32ea6909b0ebb8ab0bf1ab7dc66ee3dc8955 - 303846a3dc275e35fbb556d72f1e356ba669e4f8
Linux/Linux 604f32ea6909b0ebb8ab0bf1ab7dc66ee3dc8955 - 37233169a6ea912020c572f870075a63293b786a
Linux/Linux ebccacb0b599fa788a16eff35a7de14621f56804 - 80aec5a855106c668b5978c48e789f010198b832
linux/linux_kernel 6.12 rc1 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.11 - 6.11.7
Published Nov 19, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026