CVE-2024-35832
Linux Kernel 6.7 – 6.7.5
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HSummary
CVE-2024-35832 is a medium-severity Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference (CWE-763) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SA-15 (Development Process, Standards, and Tools) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-35731
Vulnerability Data
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bcachefs: kvfree bch_fs::snapshots in bch2_fs_snapshots_exit bch_fs::snapshots is allocated by kvzalloc in __snapshot_t_mut. It should be freed by kvfree not kfree. Or umount will triger: [ 406.829178 ] BUG: unable to…
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handle page fault for address: ffffe7b487148008 [ 406.830676 ] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 406.831643 ] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 406.832487 ] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 406.832898 ] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [ 406.833512 ] CPU: 2 PID: 1754 Comm: umount Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE 6.7.0-rc7-custom+ #90 [ 406.834746 ] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014 [ 406.835796 ] RIP: 0010:kfree+0x62/0x140 [ 406.836197 ] Code: 80 48 01 d8 0f 82 e9 00 00 00 48 c7 c2 00 00 00 80 48 2b 15 78 9f 1f 01 48 01 d0 48 c1 e8 0c 48 c1 e0 06 48 03 05 56 9f 1f 01 <48> 8b 50 08 48 89 c7 f6 c2 01 0f 85 b0 00 00 00 66 90 48 8b 07 f6 [ 406.837810 ] RSP: 0018:ffffb9d641607e48 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 406.838213 ] RAX: ffffe7b487148000 RBX: ffffb9d645200000 RCX: ffffb9d641607dc4 [ 406.838738 ] RDX: 000065bb00000000 RSI: ffffffffc0d88b84 RDI: ffffb9d645200000 [ 406.839217 ] RBP: ffff9a4625d00068 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001 [ 406.839650 ] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 000000000000001f R12: ffff9a4625d4da80 [ 406.840055 ] R13: ffff9a4625d00000 R14: ffffffffc0e2eb20 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 406.840451 ] FS: 00007f0a264ffb80(0000) GS:ffff9a4e2d500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 406.840851 ] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 406.841125 ] CR2: ffffe7b487148008 CR3: 000000018c4d2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 406.841464 ] Call Trace: [ 406.841583 ] <TASK> [ 406.841682 ] ? __die+0x1f/0x70 [ 406.841828 ] ? page_fault_oops+0x159/0x470 [ 406.842014 ] ? fixup_exception+0x22/0x310 [ 406.842198 ] ? exc_page_fault+0x1ed/0x200 [ 406.842382 ] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 [ 406.842574 ] ? bch2_fs_release+0x54/0x280 [bcachefs] [ 406.842842 ] ? kfree+0x62/0x140 [ 406.842988 ] ? kfree+0x104/0x140 [ 406.843138 ] bch2_fs_release+0x54/0x280 [bcachefs] [ 406.843390 ] kobject_put+0xb7/0x170 [ 406.843552 ] deactivate_locked_super+0x2f/0xa0 [ 406.843756 ] cleanup_mnt+0xba/0x150 [ 406.843917 ] task_work_run+0x59/0xa0 [ 406.844083 ] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x197/0x1a0 [ 406.844302 ] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 [ 406.844510 ] do_syscall_64+0x4e/0xf0 [ 406.844675 ] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 [ 406.844907 ] RIP: 0033:0x7f0a2664e4fb
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation directly exercises deallocation paths and can find incorrect release calls or mismatched alloc/free pairs.
Documented development standards and tools can mandate safe memory-management idioms and static checks that avoid invalid releases.
An SDLC that incorporates security can embed memory-safety requirements, reducing the chance such coding errors are introduced.
Engineering principles require correct resource management and memory-release patterns that stop invalid pointer releases from being coded.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure SDLC practices directly prevent invalid pointer release errors during development.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Security testing can detect invalid pointer releases before release.
Secure SDLC practices can mandate proper memory-management APIs and reviews that catch incorrect deallocation.
Application security requirements can specify correct use of release functions and pointer validation.
Secure architecture principles include safe memory handling and resource-lifetime rules.
Secure coding standards directly prohibit mismatched or incorrect pointer-release calls.