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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-56693" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-12-28T09:46:18.203Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:46:07.115Z" 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-2024-56693" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56693.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56693" title: "brd: defer automatic disk creation until module initialization succeeds" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbrd: defer automatic disk creation until module initialization succeeds\n\nMy colleague Wupeng found the following problems during fault injection:\n\nBUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff809d073\nPGD 6e648067 P4D 123ec8067 PUD 123ec4067 PMD 100e38067 PTE 0\nOops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\nCPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 755 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3+ #17\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS\n1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:__asan_load8+0x4c/0xa0\n...\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n blkdev_put_whole+0x41/0x70\n bdev_release+0x1a3/0x250\n blkdev_release+0x11/0x20\n __fput+0x1d7/0x4a0\n task_work_run+0xfc/0x180\n syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1de/0x1f0\n do_syscall_64+0x6b/0x170\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nloop_init() is calling loop_add() after __register_blkdev() succeeds and\nis ignoring disk_add() failure from loop_add(), for loop_add() failure\nis not fatal and successfully created disks are already visible to\nbdev_open().\n\nbrd_init() is currently calling brd_alloc() before __register_blkdev()\nsucceeds and is releasing successfully created disks when brd_init()\nreturns an error. This can cause UAF for the latter two case:\n\ncase 1:\n T1:\nmodprobe brd\n brd_init\n brd_alloc(0) // success\n add_disk\n disk_scan_partitions\n bdev_file_open_by_dev // alloc file\n fput // won't free until back to userspace\n brd_alloc(1) // failed since mem alloc error inject\n // error path for modprobe will release code segment\n // back to userspace\n __fput\n blkdev_release\n bdev_release\n blkdev_put_whole\n bdev-\u003ebd_disk-\u003efops-\u003erelease // fops is freed now, UAF!\n\ncase 2:\n T1: T2:\nmodprobe brd\n brd_init\n brd_alloc(0) // success\n open(/dev/ram0)\n brd_alloc(1) // fail\n // error path for modprobe\n\n close(/dev/ram0)\n ...\n /* UAF! */\n bdev-\u003ebd_disk-\u003efops-\u003erelease\n\nFix this problem by following what loop_init() does. Besides,\nreintroduce brd_devices_mutex to help serialize modifications to\nbrd_list." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7f9b348cb5e94259acdcbafbcaed55d3bb515304","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"41219c147df8bbd6591f59af5d695fb6c9a1cbff"},{"version":"7f9b348cb5e94259acdcbafbcaed55d3bb515304","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"259bf925583ec9e3781df778cadf00594095090d"},{"version":"7f9b348cb5e94259acdcbafbcaed55d3bb515304","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"410896624db639500f24f46478b4bfa05c76bf56"},{"version":"7f9b348cb5e94259acdcbafbcaed55d3bb515304","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c0c2744cd2939ec5999c51dbaf2af16886548b7b"},{"version":"7f9b348cb5e94259acdcbafbcaed55d3bb515304","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"63dfd728b30f79495dacc886127695a379805152"},{"version":"7f9b348cb5e94259acdcbafbcaed55d3bb515304","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"826cc42adf44930a633d11a5993676d85ddb0842"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"version":"5.15.174","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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