Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2024-53182 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203); ranked at the 13th 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-8 (Security and Privacy Engineering Principles) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-51854
Vulnerability Data
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "block, bfq: merge bfq_release_process_ref() into bfq_put_cooperator()" This reverts commit bc3b1e9e7c50e1de0f573eea3871db61dd4787de. The bic is associated with sync_bfqq, and bfq_release_process_ref cannot be put into bfq_put_cooperator. kasan report: [ 400.347277] ================================================================== […
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400.347287] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in bic_set_bfqq+0x200/0x230 [ 400.347420] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88881cab7d60 by task dockerd/5800 [ 400.347430] [ 400.347436] CPU: 24 UID: 0 PID: 5800 Comm: dockerd Kdump: loaded Tainted: G E 6.12.0 #32 [ 400.347450] Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE [ 400.347454] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware20,1/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS VMW201.00V.20192059.B64.2207280713 07/28/2022 [ 400.347460] Call Trace: [ 400.347464] <TASK> [ 400.347468] dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80 [ 400.347490] print_report+0x174/0x505 [ 400.347521] kasan_report+0xe0/0x160 [ 400.347541] bic_set_bfqq+0x200/0x230 [ 400.347549] bfq_bic_update_cgroup+0x419/0x740 [ 400.347560] bfq_bio_merge+0x133/0x320 [ 400.347584] blk_mq_submit_bio+0x1761/0x1e20 [ 400.347625] __submit_bio+0x28b/0x7b0 [ 400.347664] submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x6b2/0xd30 [ 400.347690] iomap_readahead+0x50c/0x680 [ 400.347731] read_pages+0x17f/0x9c0 [ 400.347785] page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x366/0x4a0 [ 400.347795] filemap_fault+0x83d/0x2340 [ 400.347819] __xfs_filemap_fault+0x11a/0x7d0 [xfs] [ 400.349256] __do_fault+0xf1/0x610 [ 400.349270] do_fault+0x977/0x11a0 [ 400.349281] __handle_mm_fault+0x5d1/0x850 [ 400.349314] handle_mm_fault+0x1f8/0x560 [ 400.349324] do_user_addr_fault+0x324/0x970 [ 400.349337] exc_page_fault+0x76/0xf0 [ 400.349350] asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 [ 400.349360] RIP: 0033:0x55a480d77375 [ 400.349384] Code: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 49 3b 66 10 0f 86 ae 02 00 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 58 48 8b 10 <83> 7a 10 00 0f 84 27 02 00 00 44 0f b6 42 28 44 0f b6 4a 29 41 80 [ 400.349392] RSP: 002b:00007f18c37fd8b8 EFLAGS: 00010216 [ 400.349401] RAX: 00007f18c37fd9d0 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 400.349407] RDX: 000055a484407d38 RSI: 000000c000e8b0c0 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 400.349412] RBP: 00007f18c37fd910 R08: 000055a484017f60 R09: 000055a484066f80 [ 400.349417] R10: 0000000000194000 R11: 0000000000000005 R12: 0000000000000008 [ 400.349422] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000c000476a80 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 400.349430] </TASK> [ 400.349452] [ 400.349454] Allocated by task 5800: [ 400.349459] kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 [ 400.349469] kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 [ 400.349475] __kasan_slab_alloc+0x89/0x90 [ 400.349482] kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0xdc/0x2a0 [ 400.349492] bfq_get_queue+0x1ef/0x1100 [ 400.349502] __bfq_get_bfqq_handle_split+0x11a/0x510 [ 400.349511] bfq_insert_requests+0xf55/0x9030 [ 400.349519] blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x446/0x14c0 [ 400.349527] __blk_flush_plug+0x27c/0x4e0 [ 400.349534] blk_finish_plug+0x52/0xa0 [ 400.349540] _xfs_buf_ioapply+0x739/0xc30 [xfs] [ 400.350246] __xfs_buf_submit+0x1b2/0x640 [xfs] [ 400.350967] xfs_buf_read_map+0x306/0xa20 [xfs] [ 400.351672] xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0x285/0x7d0 [xfs] [ 400.352386] xfs_imap_to_bp+0x107/0x270 [xfs] [ 400.353077] xfs_iget+0x70d/0x1eb0 [xfs] [ 400.353786] xfs_lookup+0x2ca/0x3a0 [xfs] [ 400.354506] xfs_vn_lookup+0x14e/0x1a0 [xfs] [ 400.355197] __lookup_slow+0x19c/0x340 [ 400.355204] lookup_one_unlocked+0xfc/0x120 [ 400.355211] ovl_lookup_single+0x1b3/0xcf0 [overlay] [ 400.355255] ovl_lookup_layer+0x316/0x490 [overlay] [ 400.355295] ovl_lookup+0x844/0x1fd0 [overlay] [ 400.355351] lookup_one_qstr_excl+0xef/0x150 [ 400.355357] do_unlinkat+0x22a/0x620 [ 400.355366] __x64_sys_unlinkat+0x109/0x1e0 [ 400.355375] do_syscall_64+0x82/0x160 [ 400.355384] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7 ---truncated---
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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- 3 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines
V1.4.3
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can discover use-after-free bugs through dynamic analysis or fuzzing.
Engineering principles can require memory-safe constructs or languages that structurally avoid introducing use-after-free.
Process isolation confines the blast radius of use-after-free memory corruption to a single execution domain.
Memory protection controls limit exploitation impact by blocking unauthorized code execution from dangling pointers.
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 incorporate memory-safety tooling and reviews that prevent most use-after-free defects.
Vulnerability identification processes can discover use-after-free issues via scanning or analysis but do not prevent their introduction.
Routine patching removes known use-after-free instances after they have been introduced in released software.
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 in development can detect use-after-free bugs before release.
Secure SDLC mandates memory-safety practices that reduce use-after-free defects.
Application security requirements can specify memory-management rules that mitigate use-after-free.
Secure architecture principles include memory-safety design choices that limit use-after-free exposure.
Secure coding standards directly prescribe avoidance of use-after-free patterns.
Change-management processes help ensure memory-safety fixes are deployed consistently.
Hardening callouts derived
Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).
Oracle Linux 8 (1 rule)
- V-248592 OL 8 must clear memory when it is freed to prevent use-after-free attacks. prevents CWE-416
RHEL 8 (1 rule)
- V-230279 RHEL 8 must clear memory when it is freed to prevent use-after-free attacks. prevents CWE-416
RHEL 9 (1 rule)
- V-257794 RHEL 9 must clear memory when it is freed to prevent use-after-free attacks. prevents CWE-416