CVE-2024-56669EPSS p11.5%
CVE-2024-56669CVE-2024-56669
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/vt-d: Remove cache tags before disabling ATS
The current implementation removes cache tags after disabling ATS,
leading to potential memory leaks and kernel crashes. Specifically,
CACHE_TAG_DEVTLB type cache tags may still remain in the list even
after the domain is freed, causing a use-after-free condition.
This issue really shows up when multiple VFs from different PFs
passed through to a single user-space process via vfio-pci. In such
cases, the kernel may crash with kernel messages like:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000014
PGD 19036a067 P4D 1940a3067 PUD 136c9b067 PMD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 74 UID: 0 PID: 3183 Comm: testCli Not tainted 6.11.9 #2
RIP: 0010:cache_tag_flush_range+0x9b/0x250
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die+0x1f/0x60
? page_fault_oops+0x163/0x590
? exc_page_fault+0x72/0x190
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
? cache_tag_flush_range+0
Scoring
| CVSS | 8.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.21% probability of exploitation · percentile 11.5% · 2026-08-05T12:04:55Z |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |