Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26588)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26588). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
LoongArch: BPF: Prevent out-of-bounds memory access
The test_tag test triggers an unhandled page fault:
./test_tag
[ 130.640218] CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff80001b898004, era == 9000000003137f7c, ra == 9000000003139e70
[ 130.640501] Oops[#3]:
[ 130.640553] CPU: 0 PID: 1326 Comm: test_tag Tainted: G D O 6.7.0-rc4-loong-devel-gb62ab1a397cf #47 61985c1d94084daa2432f771daa45b56b10d8d2a
[ 130.640764] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 2/2/2022
[ 130.640874] pc 9000000003137f7c ra 9000000003139e70 tp 9000000104cb4000 sp 9000000104cb7a40
[ 130.641001] a0 ffff80001b894000 a1 ffff80001b897ff8 a2 000000006ba210be a3 0000000000000000
[ 130.641128] a4 000000006ba210be a5 00000000000000f1 a6 00000000000000b3 a7 0000000000000000
[ 130.641256] t0 0000000000000000 t1 00000000000007f6 t2 0000000000000000 t3 9000000004091b70
[ 130.641387] t4 000000006ba210be t5 0000000000000004 t6 fffffffffffffff0 t7 90000000040913e0
[ 130.641512] t8 0000000000000005 u0 0000000000000dc0 s9 0000000000000009 s0 9000000104cb7ae0
[ 130.641641] s1 00000000000007f6 s2 0000000000000009 s3 0000000000000095 s4 0000000000000000
[ 130.641771] s5 ffff80001b894000 s6 ffff80001b897fb0 s7 9000000004090c50 s8 0000000000000000
[ 130.641900] ra: 9000000003139e70 build_body+0x1fcc/0x4988
[ 130.642007] ERA: 9000000003137f7c build_body+0x…
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-26588 has been found in Kernel.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-26588" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2024-26588 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: ?. Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Kernel' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Kernel' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Kernelを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kernel to 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2ステージング環境で 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26588 linux Fixed in: 6.1.76-1
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org