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        "cveId": "CVE-2024-56624",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2024-12-27T14:03:06.017Z",
        "datePublished": "2024-12-27T14:51:27.318Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:45:30.290Z"
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommufd: Fix out_fput in iommufd_fault_alloc()\n\nAs fput() calls the file->f_op->release op, where fault obj and ictx are\ngetting released, there is no need to release these two after fput() one\nmore time, which would result in imbalanced refcounts:\n  refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory.\n  WARNING: CPU: 48 PID: 2369 at lib/refcount.c:31 refcount_warn_saturate+0x60/0x230\n  Call trace:\n   refcount_warn_saturate+0x60/0x230 (P)\n   refcount_warn_saturate+0x60/0x230 (L)\n   iommufd_fault_fops_release+0x9c/0xe0 [iommufd]\n  ...\n  VFS: Close: file count is 0 (f_op=iommufd_fops [iommufd])\n  WARNING: CPU: 48 PID: 2369 at fs/open.c:1507 filp_flush+0x3c/0xf0\n  Call trace:\n   filp_flush+0x3c/0xf0 (P)\n   filp_flush+0x3c/0xf0 (L)\n   __arm64_sys_close+0x34/0x98\n  ...\n  imbalanced put on file reference count\n  WARNING: CPU: 48 PID: 2369 at fs/file.c:74 __file_ref_put+0x100/0x138\n  Call trace:\n   __file_ref_put+0x100/0x138 (P)\n   __file_ref_put+0x100/0x138 (L)\n   __fput_sync+0x4c/0xd0\n\nDrop those two lines to fix the warnings above."
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                        "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                        "baseScore": 7.8,
                        "baseSeverity": "HIGH"
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                            "lang": "en",
                            "value": "AV:L - Triggered via the IOMMU_FAULT_QUEUE_ALLOC ioctl on the local device file /dev/iommu (or /dev/vfio/vfio); no network reachability.\nAC:L - The caller reliably forces the error path (e.g. exhausting RLIMIT_NOFILE so get_unused_fd_flags fails, or passing a bad user pointer to fail iommufd_ucmd_respond); no uncontrolled race or memory-layout precondition.\nPR:L - Only a basic unprivileged local user with access to the iommufd/vfio device node is needed (/dev/vfio/vfio is mode 0666 with CONFIG_IOMMUFD_VFIO_CONTAINER); no capability or root required, and no device must be attached.\nUI:N - The ioctl is issued directly by the attacker; no action by any other user is required.\nS:U - The corruption stays within the kernel's own security authority; it is a refcount/UAF bug, not an IOMMU-translation or VM boundary bypass.\nC:H - The double put underflows a struct file refcount and the fault object is freed while still referenced, a use-after-free whose freed-object contents the attacker can control to read arbitrary kernel memory.\nI:H - The use-after-free / refcount underflow on a struct file enables heap grooming and arbitrary-write primitives, potentially leading to privilege escalation.\nA:H - The imbalanced refcounts cause premature frees and warnings that reliably lead to kernel oops/panic on any triggering invocation."
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af7f4780514f850322b2959032ecaa96e4b26472"
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