Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-39298)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-39298). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.95, 6.6.35, 6.9.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

mm/memory-failure: fix handling of dissolved but not taken off from buddy pages

When I did memory failure tests recently, below panic occurs:

page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x8cee00
flags: 0x6fffe0000000000(node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7fff)
raw: 06fffe0000000000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000009 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageBuddy(page))
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:1009!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:__del_page_from_free_list+0x151/0x180
RSP: 0018:ffffa49c90437998 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 0000000000000035 RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: ffff8dd8dfd1c9c8
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff8dd8dfd1c9c0
RBP: ffffd901233b8000 R08: ffffffffab5511f8 R09: 0000000000008c69
R10: 0000000000003c15 R11: ffffffffab5511f8 R12: ffff8dd8fffc0c80
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff8dd8fffc0c80 R15: 0000000000000009
FS: 00007ff916304740(0000) GS:ffff8dd8dfd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055eae50124c8 CR3: 00000008479e0000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:

__rmqueue_pcplist+0x23b/0x520
get_page_from_freelist+0x26b/0xe40
__alloc_pages_noprof+0x113/0x1120
__folio_alloc_noprof+0x11/0xb0
alloc_buddy_hugetlb_folio.isra.0+0x5a/0x130
__alloc_fresh_hu…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-39298 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.95, 6.6.35, 6.9.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-39298" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-39298 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.95, 6.6.35, 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 6.1.95, 6.6.35, 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 6.1.95, 6.6.35, 6.9.5
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.95, 6.6.35, 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":"6.0.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.95"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.35"}]},{"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-2024-39298 linux Fixed in: 6.1.99-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-39298 linux