CVE-2024-56768 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNEL-8613564
- published10 Jan 2025
- disclosed6 Jan 2025
Introduced: 6 Jan 2025
NewCVE-2024-56768 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel package and not the kernel package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix bpf_get_smp_processor_id() on !CONFIG_SMP
On x86-64 calling bpf_get_smp_processor_id() in a kernel with CONFIG_SMP disabled can trigger the following bug, as pcpu_hot is unavailable:
[ 8.471774] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000936a290c [ 8.471849] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 8.471881] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
Fix by inlining a return 0 in the !CONFIG_SMP case.