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Vulnerability · Published Mar 6, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-58078misc: misc_minor_alloc to use ida for all dynamic/misc dynamic minors

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 8% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 92.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: misc_minor_alloc to use ida for all dynamic/misc dynamic minors misc_minor_alloc was allocating id using ida for minor only in case of MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR but misc_minor_free was always freeing ids using ida_free causing a mismatch and following warn: > > WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 159 at lib/idr.c:525 ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f > > ida_free called for id=127 which is not allocated. > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ... > > [<60941eb4>] ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f > > [<605ac993>] misc_minor_free+0x3e/0xbc > > [<605acb82>] misc_deregister+0x171/0x1b3 misc_minor_alloc is changed to allocate id from ida for all minors falling in the range of dynamic/ misc dynamic minors

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:13linux6.12.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58078
Debian:14linux6.12.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-64.67UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1032.34UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1032.34~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1034.39UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.116.11.0-1015.15~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1034.39~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia6.8.0-1022.23UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1033.35UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.116.11.0-1015.15~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1033.35~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1028.32UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1015.17UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.116.11.0-26.26~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-64.67~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1029.29UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1029.29~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-64.67.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.116.11.0-1014.15~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-64.67.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1031.34UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.116.11.0-1010.10UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1031.34~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1031.34.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1008.8UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.116.11.0-1022.22UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1031.31UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1029.30UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1029.30~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1031.35UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-64.67~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1017.18UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux ab760791c0cfbb1d7a668f46a135264f56c8f018 – before 3df72111c39f7e4c5029c9ff720b56ec2e05b764ab760791c0cfbb1d7a668f46a135264f56c8f018 – before 8b4120b3e060e137eaa8dc76a1c40401088336e5ab760791c0cfbb1d7a668f46a135264f56c8f018 – before 6635332d246d7db89b90e145f2bf937406cecaf0ab760791c0cfbb1d7a668f46a135264f56c8f018 – before 6d04d2b554b14ae6c428a9c60b6c85f1e5c89f68
Linux Linux 6.2

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