CVE-2024-56669

HIGH

Linux Kernel 6.10-6.12.5 - Use-After-Free in IOMMU VT-d ATS Cache Tag Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/vt-d: Remove cache tags before disabling ATS The current implementation removes cache tags after disabling ATS, leading to potential memory leaks and kernel crashes. Specifically, CACHE_TAG_DEVTLB type cache tags may still remain in the list even after the domain is freed, causing a use-after-free condition. This issue really shows up when multiple VFs from different PFs passed through to a single user-space process via vfio-pci. In such cases, the kernel may crash with kernel messages like: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000014 PGD 19036a067 P4D 1940a3067 PUD 136c9b067 PMD 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 74 UID: 0 PID: 3183 Comm: testCli Not tainted 6.11.9 #2 RIP: 0010:cache_tag_flush_range+0x9b/0x250 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die+0x1f/0x60 ? page_fault_oops+0x163/0x590 ? exc_page_fault+0x72/0x190 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 ? cache_tag_flush_range+0x9b/0x250 ? cache_tag_flush_range+0x5d/0x250 intel_iommu_tlb_sync+0x29/0x40 intel_iommu_unmap_pages+0xfe/0x160 __iommu_unmap+0xd8/0x1a0 vfio_unmap_unpin+0x182/0x340 [vfio_iommu_type1] vfio_remove_dma+0x2a/0xb0 [vfio_iommu_type1] vfio_iommu_type1_ioctl+0xafa/0x18e0 [vfio_iommu_type1] Move cache_tag_unassign_domain() before iommu_disable_pci_caps() to fix it.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 10.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-401 CWE-476 CWE-416
Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 6.10.0 - 6.12.6linux
Linux/Linux < 6.10
Linux/Linux 3b1d9e2b2d6856eabf5faa12d20c97fef657999f - 1f2557e08a617a4b5e92a48a1a9a6f86621def18
Linux/Linux 3b1d9e2b2d6856eabf5faa12d20c97fef657999f - 9a0a72d3ed919ebe6491f527630998be053151d8
Linux/Linux 6.10
Linux/Linux 6.12.6 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.13
linux/linux_kernel 6.13 rc1 (2 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.10 - 6.12.6
Published Dec 27, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026