Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-38661)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-38661). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.19.316, 5.4.278, 5.10.219, 5.15.161, 6.1.94, 6.6.34, 6.9.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

s390/ap: Fix crash in AP internal function modify_bitmap()

A system crash like this

Failing address: 200000cb7df6f000 TEID: 200000cb7df6f403
Fault in home space mode while using kernel ASCE.
AS:00000002d71bc007 R3:00000003fe5b8007 S:000000011a446000 P:000000015660c13d
Oops: 0038 ilc:3 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: mlx5_ib ...
CPU: 8 PID: 7556 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.9.0-rc7 #8
Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 704 (LPAR)
Krnl PSW : 0704e00180000000 0000014b75e7b606 (ap_parse_bitmap_str+0x10e/0x1f8)
R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000001 ffffffffffffffc0 0000000000000001 00000048f96b75d3
000000cb00000100 ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff 000000cb7df6fce0
000000cb7df6fce0 00000000ffffffff 000000000000002b 00000048ffffffff
000003ff9b2dbc80 200000cb7df6fcd8 0000014bffffffc0 000000cb7df6fbc8
Krnl Code: 0000014b75e7b5fc: a7840047 brc 8,0000014b75e7b68a
0000014b75e7b600: 18b2 lr %r11,%r2
#0000014b75e7b602: a7f4000a brc 15,0000014b75e7b616

0000014b75e7b606: eb22d00000e6 laog %r2,%r2,0(%r13)
0000014b75e7b60c: a7680001 lhi %r6,1
0000014b75e7b610: 187b lr %r7,%r11
0000014b75e7b612: 84960021 brxh %r9,%r6,0000014b75e7b654
0000014b75e7b616: 18e9 lr %r14,%r9
Call Trace:
[<0000014b75e7b606>] ap_pars…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-38661 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.19.316, 5.4.278, 5.10.219, 5.15.161, 6.1.94, 6.6.34, 6.9.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-38661" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-38661 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.19.316, 5.4.278, 5.10.219, 5.15.161, 6.1.94, 6.6.34, 6.9.5 — 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 4.19.316, 5.4.278, 5.10.219, 5.15.161, 6.1.94, 6.6.34, 6.9.5.

🛡️ 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 4.19.316, 5.4.278, 5.10.219, 5.15.161, 6.1.94, 6.6.34, 6.9.5
```
ステージング環境で 4.19.316, 5.4.278, 5.10.219, 5.15.161, 6.1.94, 6.6.34, 6.9.5 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":"4.19.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.316"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.278"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.219"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.161"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.94"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.34"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.9.5"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38661 linux Fixed in: 5.10.221-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38661 linux-azure Fixed in: 4.15.0-1185.200~14.04.1