CVE-2024-58054
Published: 06 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-58054 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked at the 0.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 CM-7 (Least Functionality) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Timely flaw remediation requires applying the upstream kernel patches that fix the pointer overwrite in the max96712 driver, directly preventing the kernel oops during module removal.
Least functionality restricts or prohibits unnecessary staging drivers like max96712, preventing the vulnerable module from being loaded and unloaded to trigger the crash.
Denial-of-service protection identifies and mitigates vulnerabilities like the local kernel crash from rmmod on the max96712 module, addressing the high availability impact.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The vulnerability in the Linux kernel driver allows a local low-privileged attacker to trigger a kernel oops and system crash via rmmod on the max96712 module, directly enabling denial of service through exploitation of a system vulnerability.
NVD Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: media: max96712: fix kernel oops when removing module The following kernel oops is thrown when trying to remove the max96712 module: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual…
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address 00007375746174db Mem abort info: ESR = 0x0000000096000004 EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits SET = 0, FnV = 0 EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault Data abort info: ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000 CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0 GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0 user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000010af89000 [00007375746174db] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000 Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: crct10dif_ce polyval_ce mxc_jpeg_encdec flexcan snd_soc_fsl_sai snd_soc_fsl_asoc_card snd_soc_fsl_micfil dwc_mipi_csi2 imx_csi_formatter polyval_generic v4l2_jpeg imx_pcm_dma can_dev snd_soc_imx_audmux snd_soc_wm8962 snd_soc_imx_card snd_soc_fsl_utils max96712(C-) rpmsg_ctrl rpmsg_char pwm_fan fuse [last unloaded: imx8_isi] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 754 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G C 6.12.0-rc6-06364-g327fec852c31 #17 Tainted: [C]=CRAP Hardware name: NXP i.MX95 19X19 board (DT) pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : led_put+0x1c/0x40 lr : v4l2_subdev_put_privacy_led+0x48/0x58 sp : ffff80008699bbb0 x29: ffff80008699bbb0 x28: ffff00008ac233c0 x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000 x23: ffff000080cf1170 x22: ffff00008b53bd00 x21: ffff8000822ad1c8 x20: ffff000080ff5c00 x19: ffff00008b53be40 x18: 0000000000000000 x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000000004 x13: ffff0000800f8010 x12: 0000000000000000 x11: ffff000082acf5c0 x10: ffff000082acf478 x9 : ffff0000800f8010 x8 : 0101010101010101 x7 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x6 : fefefeff6364626d x5 : 8080808000000000 x4 : 0000000000000020 x3 : 00000000553a3dc1 x2 : ffff00008ac233c0 x1 : ffff00008ac233c0 x0 : ff00737574617473 Call trace: led_put+0x1c/0x40 v4l2_subdev_put_privacy_led+0x48/0x58 v4l2_async_unregister_subdev+0x2c/0x1a4 max96712_remove+0x1c/0x38 [max96712] i2c_device_remove+0x2c/0x9c device_remove+0x4c/0x80 device_release_driver_internal+0x1cc/0x228 driver_detach+0x4c/0x98 bus_remove_driver+0x6c/0xbc driver_unregister+0x30/0x60 i2c_del_driver+0x54/0x64 max96712_i2c_driver_exit+0x18/0x1d0 [max96712] __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x1a4/0x290 invoke_syscall+0x48/0x10c el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc0/0xe0 do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28 el0_svc+0x34/0xd8 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x12c el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 Code: f9000bf3 aa0003f3 f9402800 f9402000 (f9403400) ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- This happens because in v4l2_i2c_subdev_init(), the i2c_set_cliendata() is called again and the data is overwritten to point to sd, instead of priv. So, in remove(), the wrong pointer is passed to v4l2_async_unregister_subdev(), leading to a crash.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2024-58054 is a vulnerability in the Linux kernel's staging/media/max96712 driver that causes a kernel oops during module removal. The issue arises because v4l2_i2c_subdev_init() calls i2c_set_clientdata(), overwriting the client data pointer to point to the subdevice structure (sd) instead of the private data (priv). Consequently, during module removal via max96712_remove(), an incorrect pointer is passed to v4l2_async_unregister_subdev(), resulting in a paging fault and kernel crash, as evidenced by the provided stack trace showing a data abort at led_put() with a invalid virtual address.
A local attacker with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N). By executing rmmod on the max96712 module—typically after it has been loaded—the attacker triggers the kernel oops, leading to a denial of service due to system instability (A:H). The CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 also rates confidentiality impact as high (C:H), potentially allowing memory disclosure through the crash dump, though integrity impact is none (I:N).
Mitigation involves applying upstream kernel patches, as detailed in the referenced stable commit fixes: 1556b9149b81cc549c13f5e56e81e89404d8a666, 278a98f6d8a7bbe1110433b057333536e4490edf, 3311c5395e7322298b659b8addc704b39fb3a59c, dfde3d63afbaae664c4d36e53cfb4045d5374561, and ee1b5046d5cd892a0754ab982aeaaad3702083a5. These commits resolve the pointer overwrite in the max96712 driver for affected kernel versions.
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