CVE-2024-56554

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56554
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-56554.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-56554
Downstream
Published
2024-12-27T14:22:55.764Z
Modified
2025-11-16T09:28:41.218516Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
binder: fix freeze UAF in binder_release_work()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

binder: fix freeze UAF in binderreleasework()

When a binder reference is cleaned up, any freeze work queued in the associated process should also be removed. Otherwise, the reference is freed while its ref->freeze.work is still queued in proc->work leading to a use-after-free issue as shown by the following KASAN report:

================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in binderreleasework+0x398/0x3d0 Read of size 8 at addr ffff31600ee91488 by task kworker/5:1/211

CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 211 Comm: kworker/5:1 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc7-00382-gfc6c92196396 #22 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) Workqueue: events binderdeferredfunc Call trace: binderreleasework+0x398/0x3d0 binderdeferredfunc+0xb60/0x109c processonework+0x51c/0xbd4 worker_thread+0x608/0xee8

Allocated by task 703: _kmalloccachenoprof+0x130/0x280 binderthreadwrite+0xdb4/0x42a0 binderioctl+0x18f0/0x25ac _arm64sysioctl+0x124/0x190 invokesyscall+0x6c/0x254

Freed by task 211: kfree+0xc4/0x230 binderdeferredfunc+0xae8/0x109c processonework+0x51c/0xbd4 worker_thread+0x608/0xee8 ==================================================================

This commit fixes the issue by ensuring any queued freeze work is removed when cleaning up a binder reference.

References

Affected packages

Git / 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
d579b04a52a183db47dfcb7a44304d7747d551e1
Fixed
fe39e0ea2d0ba7f508ff453c4c9a44a95ec0de29
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
d579b04a52a183db47dfcb7a44304d7747d551e1
Fixed
7e20434cbca814cb91a0a261ca0106815ef48e5f

Affected versions

v6.*

v6.11
v6.11-rc2
v6.11-rc3
v6.11-rc4
v6.11-rc5
v6.11-rc6
v6.11-rc7
v6.12
v6.12-rc1
v6.12-rc2
v6.12-rc3
v6.12-rc4
v6.12-rc5
v6.12-rc6
v6.12-rc7
v6.12.1
v6.12.2
v6.12.3

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.12.0
Fixed
6.12.4