CVE-2024-56621

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.8-6.12.4 - NULL Pointer Dereference in UFS RTC Work Cancellation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: ufs: core: Cancel RTC work during ufshcd_remove() Currently, RTC work is only cancelled during __ufshcd_wl_suspend(). When ufshcd is removed in ufshcd_remove(), RTC work is not cancelled. Due to this, any further trigger of the RTC work after ufshcd_remove() would result in a NULL pointer dereference as below: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000002a4 Workqueue: events ufshcd_rtc_work Call trace: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x34/0x8c pm_runtime_get_if_active+0x24/0xb4 ufshcd_rtc_work+0x124/0x19c process_scheduled_works+0x18c/0x2d8 worker_thread+0x144/0x280 kthread+0x11c/0x128 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 Since RTC work accesses the ufshcd internal structures, it should be cancelled when ufshcd is removed. So do that in ufshcd_remove(), as per the order in ufshcd_init().

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 9.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (10)
linux/Kernel 6.8.0 - 6.12.5linux
Linux/Linux < 6.8
Linux/Linux 06701a545e9a3c4e007cff6872a074bf97c40619 - 57479e37d3f69efee2f0678568274db773284bc8
Linux/Linux 6.12.5 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.13
Linux/Linux 6.8
Linux/Linux 6bf999e0eb41850d5c857102535d5c53b2ede224 - 1695c4361d35b7bdadd7b34f99c9c07741e181e5
Linux/Linux 6bf999e0eb41850d5c857102535d5c53b2ede224 - 2e7a3bb0331efb292e0fb022c36bc592137f0520
linux/linux_kernel 6.13 rc1
linux/linux_kernel 6.8 - 6.12.5
Published Dec 27, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026