# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-56669"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-12-27T15:06:30.792Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:45:59.525Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56669"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56669.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56669"
title: "iommu/vt-d: Remove cache tags before disabling ATS"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu/vt-d: Remove cache tags before disabling ATS\n\nThe current implementation removes cache tags after disabling ATS,\nleading to potential memory leaks and kernel crashes. Specifically,\nCACHE_TAG_DEVTLB type cache tags may still remain in the list even\nafter the domain is freed, causing a use-after-free condition.\n\nThis issue really shows up when multiple VFs from different PFs\npassed through to a single user-space process via vfio-pci. In such\ncases, the kernel may crash with kernel messages like:\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000014\n PGD 19036a067 P4D 1940a3067 PUD 136c9b067 PMD 0\n Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 74 UID: 0 PID: 3183 Comm: testCli Not tainted 6.11.9 #2\n RIP: 0010:cache_tag_flush_range+0x9b/0x250\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  ? __die+0x1f/0x60\n  ? page_fault_oops+0x163/0x590\n  ? exc_page_fault+0x72/0x190\n  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n  ? cache_tag_flush_range+0x9b/0x250\n  ? cache_tag_flush_range+0x5d/0x250\n  intel_iommu_tlb_sync+0x29/0x40\n  intel_iommu_unmap_pages+0xfe/0x160\n  __iommu_unmap+0xd8/0x1a0\n  vfio_unmap_unpin+0x182/0x340 [vfio_iommu_type1]\n  vfio_remove_dma+0x2a/0xb0 [vfio_iommu_type1]\n  vfio_iommu_type1_ioctl+0xafa/0x18e0 [vfio_iommu_type1]\n\nMove cache_tag_unassign_domain() before iommu_disable_pci_caps() to fix\nit."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3b1d9e2b2d6856eabf5faa12d20c97fef657999f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a0a72d3ed919ebe6491f527630998be053151d8"},{"version":"3b1d9e2b2d6856eabf5faa12d20c97fef657999f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f2557e08a617a4b5e92a48a1a9a6f86621def18"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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