CVE-2024-53075

Name	CVE-2024-53075
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: Prevent a bad reference count on CPU nodes When populating cache leaves we previously fetched the CPU device node at the very beginning. But when ACPI is enabled we go through a specific branch which returns early and does not call 'of_node_put' for the node that was acquired. Since we are not using a CPU device node for the ACPI code anyways, we can simply move the initialization of it just passed the ACPI block, and we are guaranteed to have an 'of_node_put' call for the acquired node. This prevents a bad reference count of the CPU device node. Moreover, the previous function did not check for errors when acquiring the device node, so a return -ENOENT has been added for that case.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	3.16.84-1	vulnerable
	stretch (security)	4.9.320-2	vulnerable
	stretch (lts), stretch	4.9.320-3	vulnerable
	buster (security), buster, buster (lts)	4.19.316-1	vulnerable
	bullseye	5.10.223-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.226-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.115-1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.119-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.5-1	fixed
	sid	6.12.6-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency
linux	source	jessie	(unfixed)	end-of-life
linux	source	stretch	(unfixed)	end-of-life
linux	source	buster	(unfixed)	end-of-life
linux	source	bullseye	(not affected)
linux	source	bookworm	(not affected)
linux	source	(unstable)	6.11.7-1

Notes

[bookworm] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[bullseye] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/37233169a6ea912020c572f870075a63293b786a (6.12-rc6)