Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26900)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26900). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.217, 5.15.159, 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.7.11, 6.8.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

md: fix kmemleak of rdev->serial

If kobject_add() is fail in bind_rdev_to_array(), 'rdev->serial' will be
alloc not be freed, and kmemleak occurs.

unreferenced object 0xffff88815a350000 (size 49152):
comm "mdadm", pid 789, jiffies 4294716910
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc f773277a):
[<0000000058b0a453>] kmemleak_alloc+0x61/0xe0
[<00000000366adf14>] __kmalloc_large_node+0x15e/0x270
[<000000002e82961b>] __kmalloc_node.cold+0x11/0x7f
[<00000000f206d60a>] kvmalloc_node+0x74/0x150
[<0000000034bf3363>] rdev_init_serial+0x67/0x170
[<0000000010e08fe9>] mddev_create_serial_pool+0x62/0x220
[<00000000c3837bf0>] bind_rdev_to_array+0x2af/0x630
[<0000000073c28560>] md_add_new_disk+0x400/0x9f0
[<00000000770e30ff>] md_ioctl+0x15bf/0x1c10
[<000000006cfab718>] blkdev_ioctl+0x191/0x3f0
[<0000000085086a11>] vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x60
[<0000000018b656fe>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xba/0xe0
[<00000000e54e675e>] do_syscall_64+0x71/0x150
[<000000008b0ad622>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0x74

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-26900 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.217, 5.15.159, 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.7.11, 6.8.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-26900" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-26900 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.217, 5.15.159, 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.7.11, 6.8.2 — 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 5.10.217, 5.15.159, 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.7.11, 6.8.2.

🛡️ 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 5.10.217, 5.15.159, 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.7.11, 6.8.2
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.217, 5.15.159, 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.7.11, 6.8.2 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":"5.3.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.217"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.159"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.91"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.31"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.7.11"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.8.0"},{"fixed":"6.8.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26900 linux Fixed in: 5.10.218-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26900 linux-hwe-edge