CVE-2024-53075

riscv: Prevent a bad reference count on CPU nodes

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: November 19, 2024 at 05:31 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 08:08 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: Prevent a bad reference count on CPU nodes When populating cache leaves we previously fetched the CPU device node at the very beginning. But when ACPI is enabled we go through a specific branch which returns early and does not call 'of_node_put' for the node that was acquired. Since we are not using a CPU device node for the ACPI code anyways, we can simply move the initialization of it just passed the ACPI block, and we are guaranteed to have an 'of_node_put' call for the acquired node. This prevents a bad reference count of the CPU device node. Moreover, the previous function did not check for errors when acquiring the device node, so a return -ENOENT has been added for that case.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.11 ≤ v < 6.11.76.11 ≤ v < 6.126.12 rc16.12 rc26.12 rc36.12 rc46.12 rc5604f32ea6909b0ebb8ab0bf1ab7dc66ee3dc8955ebccacb0b599fa788a16eff35a7de14621f56804
Vendor states this is fixed in 303846a3dc275e35fbb556d72f1e356ba669e4f8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 37233169a6ea912020c572f870075a63293b786a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 80aec5a855106c668b5978c48e789f010198b832 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.11.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12 (unaffected)

Remediation

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References (3)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

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