Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26781)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26781). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.212, 5.15.151, 6.1.81, 6.6.21, 6.7.9 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

mptcp: fix possible deadlock in subflow diag

Syzbot and Eric reported a lockdep splat in the subflow diag:

WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
6.8.0-rc4-syzkaller-00212-g40b9385dd8e6 #0 Not tainted

syz-executor.2/24141 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff888045870130 (k-sk_lock-AF_INET6){+.+.}-{0:0}, at:
tcp_diag_put_ulp net/ipv4/tcp_diag.c:100 [inline]
ffff888045870130 (k-sk_lock-AF_INET6){+.+.}-{0:0}, at:
tcp_diag_get_aux+0x738/0x830 net/ipv4/tcp_diag.c:137

but task is already holding lock:
ffffc9000135e488 (&h->lhash2[i].lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: spin_lock
include/linux/spinlock.h:351 [inline]
ffffc9000135e488 (&h->lhash2[i].lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at:
inet_diag_dump_icsk+0x39f/0x1f80 net/ipv4/inet_diag.c:1038

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #1 (&h->lhash2[i].lock){+.+.}-{2:2}:
lock_acquire+0x1e3/0x530 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5754
__raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:133 [inline]
_raw_spin_lock+0x2e/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:154
spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:351 [inline]
__inet_hash+0x335/0xbe0 net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c:743
inet_csk_listen_start+0x23a/0x320 net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:1261
__inet_listen_sk+0x2a2/0x770 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:217
inet_listen+0xa3/0x110 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:239
rds_tcp_listen_init+0x3fd/0x5a0 net/rds/tc…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-26781 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.212, 5.15.151, 6.1.81, 6.6.21, 6.7.9 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-26781" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-26781 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.212, 5.15.151, 6.1.81, 6.6.21, 6.7.9 — 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 5.10.212, 5.15.151, 6.1.81, 6.6.21, 6.7.9.

🛡️ 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 5.10.212, 5.15.151, 6.1.81, 6.6.21, 6.7.9
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.212, 5.15.151, 6.1.81, 6.6.21, 6.7.9 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":"5.10.211"},{"fixed":"5.10.212"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.15.150"},{"fixed":"5.15.151"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.1.80"},{"fixed":"6.1.81"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.6.19"},{"fixed":"6.6.21"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.7"},{"fixed":"6.7.9"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26781 linux Fixed in: 5.10.216-1