Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-35989)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-35989). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.158, 6.1.90, 6.6.30, 6.8.9 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

dmaengine: idxd: Fix oops during rmmod on single-CPU platforms

During the removal of the idxd driver, registered offline callback is
invoked as part of the clean up process. However, on systems with only
one CPU online, no valid target is available to migrate the
perf context, resulting in a kernel oops:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000000002a2b8
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 1470e1067 P4D 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 0 PID: 20 Comm: cpuhp/0 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc6-dsa+ #57
Hardware name: Intel Corporation AvenueCity/AvenueCity, BIOS BHSDCRB1.86B.2492.D03.2307181620 07/18/2023
RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x2e/0x50
...
Call Trace:

__die+0x24/0x70
page_fault_oops+0x82/0x160
do_user_addr_fault+0x65/0x6b0
__pfx___rdmsr_safe_on_cpu+0x10/0x10
exc_page_fault+0x7d/0x170
asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
mutex_lock+0x2e/0x50
mutex_lock+0x1e/0x50
perf_pmu_migrate_context+0x87/0x1f0
perf_event_cpu_offline+0x76/0x90 [idxd]
cpuhp_invoke_callback+0xa2/0x4f0
__pfx_perf_event_cpu_offline+0x10/0x10 [idxd]
cpuhp_thread_fun+0x98/0x150
smpboot_thread_fn+0x27/0x260
smpboot_thread_fn+0x1af/0x260
__pfx_smpboot_thread_fn+0x10/0x10
kthread+0x103/0x140
__pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50
__pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-35989 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.158, 6.1.90, 6.6.30, 6.8.9 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-35989" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-35989 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 5.15.158, 6.1.90, 6.6.30, 6.8.9 — 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 5.15.158, 6.1.90, 6.6.30, 6.8.9.

🛡️ 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 5.15.158, 6.1.90, 6.6.30, 6.8.9
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.158, 6.1.90, 6.6.30, 6.8.9 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":"5.13.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.158"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.90"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.30"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.8.9"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35989 linux Fixed in: 6.1.90-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-35989 linux-hwe-edge