Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26644)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26644). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.4.296, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.76, 6.6.15, 6.7.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

btrfs: don't abort filesystem when attempting to snapshot deleted subvolume

If the source file descriptor to the snapshot ioctl refers to a deleted
subvolume, we get the following abort:

BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -2)
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 833 at fs/btrfs/transaction.c:1875 create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs]
Modules linked in: pata_acpi btrfs ata_piix libata scsi_mod virtio_net blake2b_generic xor net_failover virtio_rng failover scsi_common rng_core raid6_pq libcrc32c
CPU: 0 PID: 833 Comm: t_snapshot_dele Not tainted 6.7.0-rc6 #2
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-1.fc39 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs]
RSP: 0018:ffffa09c01337af8 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9982053e7c78 RCX: 0000000000000027
RDX: ffff99827dc20848 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff99827dc20840
RBP: ffffa09c01337c00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffa09c01337998
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffffffb96da248 R12: fffffffffffffffe
R13: ffff99820535bb28 R14: ffff99820b7bd000 R15: ffff99820381ea80
FS: 00007fe20aadabc0(0000) GS:ffff99827dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000559a120b502f CR3: 00000000055b6000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:

? create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs]
? __warn+0x81/0x130
? create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [b…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-26644 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.4.296, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.76, 6.6.15, 6.7.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-26644" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-26644 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.4.296, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.76, 6.6.15, 6.7.3 — 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 5.4.296, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.76, 6.6.15, 6.7.3.

🛡️ 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 5.4.296, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.76, 6.6.15, 6.7.3
```
ステージング環境で 5.4.296, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.76, 6.6.15, 6.7.3 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":"2.6.35"},{"fixed":"5.4.296"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.210"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.149"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.76"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.15"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.7.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26644 linux Fixed in: 5.10.216-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644 linux