Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26680)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26680). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.78, 6.6.17, 6.7.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net: atlantic: Fix DMA mapping for PTP hwts ring

Function aq_ring_hwts_rx_alloc() maps extra AQ_CFG_RXDS_DEF bytes
for PTP HWTS ring but then generic aq_ring_free() does not take this
into account.
Create and use a specific function to free HWTS ring to fix this
issue.

Trace:
[ 215.351607] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 215.351612] DMA-API: atlantic 0000:4b:00.0: device driver frees DMA memory with different size [device address=0x00000000fbdd0000] [map size=34816 bytes] [unmap size=32768 bytes]
[ 215.351635] WARNING: CPU: 33 PID: 10759 at kernel/dma/debug.c:988 check_unmap+0xa6f/0x2360
...
[ 215.581176] Call Trace:
[ 215.583632]
[ 215.585745] ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df
[ 215.590114] ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df
[ 215.594497] ? debug_dma_free_coherent+0x196/0x210
[ 215.599305] ? check_unmap+0xa6f/0x2360
[ 215.603147] ? __warn+0xca/0x1d0
[ 215.606391] ? check_unmap+0xa6f/0x2360
[ 215.610237] ? report_bug+0x1ef/0x370
[ 215.613921] ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70
[ 215.617423] ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x50
[ 215.621269] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
[ 215.625480] ? check_unmap+0xa6f/0x2360
[ 215.629331] ? mark_lock.part.0+0xca/0xa40
[ 215.633445] debug_dma_free_coherent+0x196/0x210
[ 215.638079] ? __pfx_debug_dma_free_coherent+0x10/0x10
[ 215.643242] ? slab_free_freelist_hook+0x11d/0x1d0
[ 215.648060] dma_free_attrs+0x6d/0x130
[ 215.651834] aq_ring_free+0x193/0x…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-26680 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.78, 6.6.17, 6.7.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-26680" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-26680 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.78, 6.6.17, 6.7.5 — 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 6.1.78, 6.6.17, 6.7.5.

🛡️ 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 6.1.78, 6.6.17, 6.7.5
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.78, 6.6.17, 6.7.5 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":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.78"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.17"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.7.5"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26680 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26680 linux-hwe-edge