Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26984)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-26984). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.19.313, 5.4.275, 5.10.216, 5.15.157, 6.1.88, 6.6.29, 6.8.8 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

nouveau: fix instmem race condition around ptr stores

Running a lot of VK CTS in parallel against nouveau, once every
few hours you might see something like this crash.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
PGD 8000000114e6e067 P4D 8000000114e6e067 PUD 109046067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 7 PID: 53891 Comm: deqp-vk Not tainted 6.8.0-rc6+ #27
Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z390 I AORUS PRO WIFI/Z390 I AORUS PRO WIFI-CF, BIOS F8 11/05/2021
RIP: 0010:gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0xe3/0x180 [nouveau]
Code: c7 48 01 c8 49 89 45 58 85 d2 0f 84 95 00 00 00 41 0f b7 46 12 49 8b 7e 08 89 da 42 8d 2c f8 48 8b 47 08 41 83 c7 01 48 89 ee <48> 8b 40 08 ff d0 0f 1f 00 49 8b 7e 08 48 89 d9 48 8d 75 04 48 c1
RSP: 0000:ffffac20c5857838 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000004d8001 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 00000000004d8001 RSI: 00000000000006d8 RDI: ffffa07afe332180
RBP: 00000000000006d8 R08: ffffac20c5857ad0 R09: 0000000000ffff10
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffa07af27e2de0 R12: 000000000000001c
R13: ffffac20c5857ad0 R14: ffffa07a96fe9040 R15: 000000000000001c
FS: 00007fe395eed7c0(0000) GS:ffffa07e2c980000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 000000011febe001 CR4: 00000000003706f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7:…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-26984 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.19.313, 5.4.275, 5.10.216, 5.15.157, 6.1.88, 6.6.29, 6.8.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-26984" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-26984 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 4.19.313, 5.4.275, 5.10.216, 5.15.157, 6.1.88, 6.6.29, 6.8.8 — 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 4.19.313, 5.4.275, 5.10.216, 5.15.157, 6.1.88, 6.6.29, 6.8.8.

🛡️ 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 4.19.313, 5.4.275, 5.10.216, 5.15.157, 6.1.88, 6.6.29, 6.8.8
```
ステージング環境で 4.19.313, 5.4.275, 5.10.216, 5.15.157, 6.1.88, 6.6.29, 6.8.8 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":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.313"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.275"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.216"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.157"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.88"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.29"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.8.8"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26984 linux Fixed in: 5.10.216-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26984 linux-azure Fixed in: 4.15.0-1181.196~14.04.1