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Privileges Required
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CVE-2024-56781

Disclosure Date: January 08, 2025 •
CVE-2024-56781 CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/prom_init: Fixup missing powermac #size-cells

On some powermacs escc nodes are missing #size-cells properties,
which is deprecated and now triggers a warning at boot since commit
045b14ca5c36 (“of: WARN on deprecated #address-cells/#size-cells
handling”).

For example:

Missing ‘#size-cells’ in /pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/escc@13000
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at drivers/of/base.c:133 of_bus_n_size_cells+0x98/0x108
Hardware name: PowerMac3,1 7400 0xc0209 PowerMac
…
Call Trace:

of_bus_n_size_cells+0x98/0x108 (unreliable)
of_bus_default_count_cells+0x40/0x60
__of_get_address+0xc8/0x21c
__of_address_to_resource+0x5c/0x228
pmz_init_port+0x5c/0x2ec
pmz_probe.isra.0+0x144/0x1e4
pmz_console_init+0x10/0x48
console_init+0xcc/0x138
start_kernel+0x5c4/0x694

As powermacs boot via prom_init it’s possible to add the missing
properties to the device tree during boot, avoiding the warning. Note
that escc-legacy nodes are also missing #size-cells properties, but
they are skipped by the macio driver, so leave them alone.

Depends-on: 045b14ca5c36 (“of: WARN on deprecated #address-cells/#size-cells handling”)

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Offensive Application
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OS
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Vulnerable Versions
Linux 0b94d838018fb0a824e0cd3149034928c99fb1b7
Linux not down converted
Prerequisites
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Discovered By
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PoC Author
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Metasploit Module
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Reporter
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