Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26941)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26941). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.8.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

drm/dp: Fix divide-by-zero regression on DP MST unplug with nouveau

Fix a regression when using nouveau and unplugging a StarTech MSTDP122DP
DisplayPort 1.2 MST hub (the same regression does not appear when using
a Cable Matters DisplayPort 1.4 MST hub). Trace:

divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 7 PID: 2962 Comm: Xorg Not tainted 6.8.0-rc3+ #744
Hardware name: Razer Blade/DANA_MB, BIOS 01.01 08/31/2018
RIP: 0010:drm_dp_bw_overhead+0xb4/0x110 [drm_display_helper]
Code: c6 b8 01 00 00 00 75 61 01 c6 41 0f af f3 41 0f af f1 c1 e1 04 48 63 c7 31 d2 89 ff 48 8b 5d f8 c9 48 0f af f1 48 8d 44 06 ff <48> f7 f7 31 d2 31 c9 31 f6 31 ff 45 31 c0 45 31 c9 45 31 d2 45 31
RSP: 0018:ffffb2c5c211fa30 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: ffffffffffffffff RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000f59b00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffb2c5c211fa48 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000020
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000023b4a
R13: ffff91d37d165800 R14: ffff91d36fac6d80 R15: ffff91d34a764010
FS: 00007f4a1ca3fa80(0000) GS:ffff91d6edbc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000559491d49000 CR3: 000000011d180002 CR4: 00000000003706f0
Call Trace:

? show_regs+0x6d/0x80
? die+0x37/0xa0
? do_trap+0xd4/0xf0
? do_error_trap+0x71/0xb0
? drm_dp_bw_overhead+0xb4/0x110 [drm_display_helper]
? exc_…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-26941 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.8.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-26941" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-26941 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.8.3 — 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 6.8.3.

🛡️ 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 6.8.3
```
ステージング環境で 6.8.3 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":"6.8.0"},{"fixed":"6.8.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26941 linux Fixed in: 6.8.9-1