Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26959)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26959). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.24, 6.7.12, 6.8.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Fix btnxpuart_close

Fix scheduling while atomic BUG in btnxpuart_close(), properly
purge the transmit queue and free the receive skb.

[ 10.973809] BUG: scheduling while atomic: kworker/u9:0/80/0x00000002
...
[ 10.980740] CPU: 3 PID: 80 Comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc7-0.0.0-devel-00005-g61fdfceacf09 #1
[ 10.980751] Hardware name: Toradex Verdin AM62 WB on Dahlia Board (DT)
[ 10.980760] Workqueue: hci0 hci_power_off [bluetooth]
[ 10.981169] Call trace:
...
[ 10.981363] uart_update_mctrl+0x58/0x78
[ 10.981373] uart_dtr_rts+0x104/0x114
[ 10.981381] tty_port_shutdown+0xd4/0xdc
[ 10.981396] tty_port_close+0x40/0xbc
[ 10.981407] uart_close+0x34/0x9c
[ 10.981414] ttyport_close+0x50/0x94
[ 10.981430] serdev_device_close+0x40/0x50
[ 10.981442] btnxpuart_close+0x24/0x98 [btnxpuart]
[ 10.981469] hci_dev_close_sync+0x2d8/0x718 [bluetooth]
[ 10.981728] hci_dev_do_close+0x2c/0x70 [bluetooth]
[ 10.981862] hci_power_off+0x20/0x64 [bluetooth]

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-26959 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.24, 6.7.12, 6.8.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-26959" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-26959 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.6.24, 6.7.12, 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 6.6.24, 6.7.12, 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 6.6.24, 6.7.12, 6.8.3
```
ステージング環境で 6.6.24, 6.7.12, 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":"6.4.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.24"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.7.12"}]},{"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-2024-26959 linux Fixed in: 6.7.12-1