{"id":"CVE-2024-56772","summary":"kunit: string-stream: Fix a UAF bug in kunit_init_suite()","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkunit: string-stream: Fix a UAF bug in kunit_init_suite()\n\nIn kunit_debugfs_create_suite(), if alloc_string_stream() fails in the\nkunit_suite_for_each_test_case() loop, the \"suite-\u003elog = stream\"\nhas assigned before, and the error path only free the suite-\u003elog's stream\nmemory but not set it to NULL, so the later string_stream_clear() of\nsuite-\u003elog in kunit_init_suite() will cause below UAF bug.\n\nSet stream pointer to NULL after free to fix it.\n\n\tUnable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 006440150000030d\n\tMem abort info:\n\t  ESR = 0x0000000096000004\n\t  EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits\n\t  SET = 0, FnV = 0\n\t  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0\n\t  FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault\n\tData abort info:\n\t  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000\n\t  CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0\n\t  GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0\n\t[006440150000030d] address between user and kernel address ranges\n\tInternal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP\n\tDumping ftrace buffer:\n\t   (ftrace buffer empty)\n\tModules linked in: iio_test_gts industrialio_gts_helper cfg80211 rfkill ipv6 [last unloaded: iio_test_gts]\n\tCPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 6253 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G    B   W        N 6.12.0-rc4+ #458\n\tTainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE, [W]=WARN, [N]=TEST\n\tHardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)\n\tpstate: 40000005 (nZcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n\tpc : string_stream_clear+0x54/0x1ac\n\tlr : string_stream_clear+0x1a8/0x1ac\n\tsp : ffffffc080b47410\n\tx29: ffffffc080b47410 x28: 006440550000030d x27: ffffff80c96b5e98\n\tx26: ffffff80c96b5e80 x25: ffffffe461b3f6c0 x24: 0000000000000003\n\tx23: ffffff80c96b5e88 x22: 1ffffff019cdf4fc x21: dfffffc000000000\n\tx20: ffffff80ce6fa7e0 x19: 032202a80000186d x18: 0000000000001840\n\tx17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffffffe45c355cb4\n\tx14: ffffffe45c35589c x13: ffffffe45c03da78 x12: ffffffb810168e75\n\tx11: 1ffffff810168e74 x10: ffffffb810168e74 x9 : dfffffc000000000\n\tx8 : 0000000000000004 x7 : 0000000000000003 x6 : 0000000000000001\n\tx5 : ffffffc080b473a0 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000\n\tx2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : ffffffe462fbf620 x0 : dfffffc000000000\n\tCall trace:\n\t string_stream_clear+0x54/0x1ac\n\t __kunit_test_suites_init+0x108/0x1d8\n\t kunit_exec_run_tests+0xb8/0x100\n\t kunit_module_notify+0x400/0x55c\n\t notifier_call_chain+0xfc/0x3b4\n\t blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x68/0x9c\n\t do_init_module+0x24c/0x5c8\n\t load_module+0x4acc/0x4e90\n\t init_module_from_file+0xd4/0x128\n\t idempotent_init_module+0x2d4/0x57c\n\t __arm64_sys_finit_module+0xac/0x100\n\t invoke_syscall+0x6c/0x258\n\t el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x160/0x22c\n\t do_el0_svc+0x44/0x5c\n\t el0_svc+0x48/0xb8\n\t el0t_64_sync_handler+0x13c/0x158\n\t el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194\n\tCode: f9400753 d2dff800 f2fbffe0 d343fe7c (38e06b80)\n\t---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\tKernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception","modified":"2026-04-02T12:25:14.711600Z","published":"2025-01-08T17:49:11.544Z","related":["USN-7379-2","USN-7380-1"],"database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/56xxx/CVE-2024-56772.json","cna_assigner":"Linux"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3213b92754b94dec6836e8b4d6ec7d224a805b61"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39e21403c978862846fa68b7f6d06f9cca235194"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/56xxx/CVE-2024-56772.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56772"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"a3fdf784780ccb0008d630e8722d1389c49c7499"},{"fixed":"3213b92754b94dec6836e8b4d6ec7d224a805b61"},{"fixed":"39e21403c978862846fa68b7f6d06f9cca235194"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-56772.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}