CVE-2024-56568MediumMicrosoft CVSS 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Microsoft security update for CVE-2024-56568

Published
March 8, 2025
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products5

  • azl3 kernel 6.6.64.2-9 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.76.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.173.1-2 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.173.1-2 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.176.3-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates

2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update5.15.176.3-1
—Security Update6.6.76.1-1

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-56568

EchelonGraph score
4.7 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/arm-smmu: Defer probe of clients after smmu device bound Null pointer dereference occurs due to a race between smmu driver probe and client driver probe, when of_dma_configure() for client is called after the iommu_device_register() for smmu driver probe has executed but before the driver_bound() for smmu driver has been called. Following is how the race occurs: T1:Smmu device probe T2: Client device probe really_probe() arm_smmu_device_probe() iommu_device_register() really_probe() platform_dma_configure() of_dma_configure() of_dma_configure_id() of_iommu_configure() iommu_probe_device() iommu_init_device() arm_smmu_probe_device() arm_smmu_get_by_fwnode() driver_find_device_by_fwnode() driver_find_device() next_device() klist_next() /* null ptr assigned to smmu */ /* null ptr dereference while smmu->streamid_mask */ driver_bound() klist_add_tail() When this null smmu pointer is dereferenced later in arm_smmu_probe_device, the device crashes. Fix this by deferring the probe of the client device until the smmu device has bound to the arm smmu driver. [will: Add comment]

Published by kernel.org, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-56568, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)