Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26591)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26591). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.148, 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:

bpf: Fix re-attachment branch in bpf_tracing_prog_attach

The following case can cause a crash due to missing attach_btf:

load rawtp program
load fentry program with rawtp as target_fd
create tracing link for fentry program with target_fd = 0
repeat 3

In the end we have:

prog->aux->dst_trampoline == NULL
tgt_prog == NULL (because we did not provide target_fd to link_create)
prog->aux->attach_btf == NULL (the program was loaded with attach_prog_fd=X)
the program was loaded for tgt_prog but we have no way to find out which one

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058
Call Trace:

? __die+0x20/0x70
? page_fault_oops+0x15b/0x430
? fixup_exception+0x22/0x330
? exc_page_fault+0x6f/0x170
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
? bpf_tracing_prog_attach+0x279/0x560
? btf_obj_id+0x5/0x10
bpf_tracing_prog_attach+0x439/0x560
__sys_bpf+0x1cf4/0x2de0
__x64_sys_bpf+0x1c/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x41/0xf0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

Return -EINVAL in this situation.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-26591 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.148, 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-26591" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-26591 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.148, 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.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 5.15.148, 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

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

1
Identify 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。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade Kernel to 5.15.148, 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.148, 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。
3
Post-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

Linux Kernel

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.13.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.148"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.75"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.14"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.7.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26591 linux Fixed in: 6.1.76-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26591 linux-hwe-edge