Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26709)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26709). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.7.6 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

powerpc/iommu: Fix the missing iommu_group_put() during platform domain attach

The function spapr_tce_platform_iommu_attach_dev() is missing to call
iommu_group_put() when the domain is already set. This refcount leak
shows up with BUG_ON() during DLPAR remove operation as:

KernelBug: Kernel bug in state 'None': kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c:100!
Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=8192 NUMA pSeries

Hardware name: IBM,9080-HEX POWER10 (raw) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.00 (NH1060_016) hv:phyp pSeries
NIP: c0000000000ff4d4 LR: c0000000000ff4cc CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c0000013aed5f840 TRAP: 0700 Tainted: G I (6.8.0-rc3-autotest-g99bd3cb0d12e)
MSR: 8000000000029033 CR: 44002402 XER: 20040000
CFAR: c000000000a0d170 IRQMASK: 0
...
NIP iommu_reconfig_notifier+0x94/0x200
LR iommu_reconfig_notifier+0x8c/0x200
Call Trace:
iommu_reconfig_notifier+0x8c/0x200 (unreliable)
notifier_call_chain+0xb8/0x19c
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x64/0x98
of_reconfig_notify+0x44/0xdc
of_detach_node+0x78/0xb0
ofdt_write.part.0+0x86c/0xbb8
proc_reg_write+0xf4/0x150
vfs_write+0xf8/0x488
ksys_write+0x84/0x140
system_call_exception+0x138/0x330
system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec

The patch adds the missing iommu_group_put() call.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-26709 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.7.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-26709" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-26709 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.7.6 — 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 6.7.6.

🛡️ 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 6.7.6
```
ステージング環境で 6.7.6 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":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.7.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26709 linux Fixed in: 6.7.7-1