Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-36882)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-36882). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.8.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

mm: use memalloc_nofs_save() in page_cache_ra_order()

See commit f2c817bed58d ("mm: use memalloc_nofs_save in readahead path"),
ensure that page_cache_ra_order() do not attempt to reclaim file-backed
pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found issue when test ext4 large
folio.

INFO: task DataXceiver for:7494 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:DataXceiver for state:D stack:0 pid:7494 ppid:1 flags:0x00000200
Call trace:
__switch_to+0x14c/0x240
__schedule+0x82c/0xdd0
schedule+0x58/0xf0
io_schedule+0x24/0xa0
__folio_lock+0x130/0x300
migrate_pages_batch+0x378/0x918
migrate_pages+0x350/0x700
compact_zone+0x63c/0xb38
compact_zone_order+0xc0/0x118
try_to_compact_pages+0xb0/0x280
__alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x98/0x248
__alloc_pages+0x510/0x1110
alloc_pages+0x9c/0x130
folio_alloc+0x20/0x78
filemap_alloc_folio+0x8c/0x1b0
page_cache_ra_order+0x174/0x308
ondemand_readahead+0x1c8/0x2b8
page_cache_async_ra+0x68/0xb8
filemap_readahead.isra.0+0x64/0xa8
filemap_get_pages+0x3fc/0x5b0
filemap_splice_read+0xf4/0x280
ext4_file_splice_read+0x2c/0x48 [ext4]
vfs_splice_read.part.0+0xa8/0x118
splice_direct_to_actor+0xbc/0x288
do_splice_direct+0x9c/0x108
do_sendfile+0x328/0x468
__arm64_sys_sendfile64+0x8c/0x148
invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x118
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0
do_el0_s…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-36882 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.8.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-36882" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-36882 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.8.10 — 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 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.8.10.

🛡️ 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 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.8.10
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.8.10 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":"5.18.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.91"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.31"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.8.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36882 linux Fixed in: 6.1.94-1