Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-39371)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-39371). 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:

io_uring: check for non-NULL file pointer in io_file_can_poll()

In earlier kernels, it was possible to trigger a NULL pointer
dereference off the forced async preparation path, if no file had
been assigned. The trace leading to that looks as follows:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000b0
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 67 PID: 1633 Comm: buf-ring-invali Not tainted 6.8.0-rc3+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS unknown 2/2/2022
RIP: 0010:io_buffer_select+0xc3/0x210
Code: 00 00 48 39 d1 0f 82 ae 00 00 00 48 81 4b 48 00 00 01 00 48 89 73 70 0f b7 50 0c 66 89 53 42 85 ed 0f 85 d2 00 00 00 48 8b 13 <48> 8b 92 b0 00 00 00 48 83 7a 40 00 0f 84 21 01 00 00 4c 8b 20 5b
RSP: 0018:ffffb7bec38c7d88 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff97af2be61000 RBX: ffff97af234f1700 RCX: 0000000000000040
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff97aecfb04820 RDI: ffff97af234f1700
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000200030 R09: 0000000000000020
R10: ffffb7bec38c7dc8 R11: 000000000000c000 R12: ffffb7bec38c7db8
R13: ffff97aecfb05800 R14: ffff97aecfb05800 R15: ffff97af2be5e000
FS: 00007f852f74b740(0000) GS:ffff97b1eeec0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000000000b0 CR3: 000000016deab005 CR4: 0000000000370ef0
Call Trace:

? __die+0x1f/0x60
? page_fault_oops+0x14d/0x420
? do_user_addr_fault+0x61/0x6a0
? exc_page_fault+0x6c/0x150…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-39371 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-2024-39371" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-39371 (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":"5.19.0"},{"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-2024-39371 linux Fixed in: 6.1.99-1