Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-41031)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-41031). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.41, 6.9.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

mm/filemap: skip to create PMD-sized page cache if needed

On ARM64, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER is 13 when the base page size is 64KB. The
PMD-sized page cache can't be supported by xarray as the following error
messages indicate.

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 35 PID: 7484 at lib/xarray.c:1025 xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128
Modules linked in: nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib
nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct
nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4
ip_set rfkill nf_tables nfnetlink vfat fat virtio_balloon drm
fuse xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_ce ghash_ce sha2_ce sha256_arm64
sha1_ce virtio_net net_failover virtio_console virtio_blk failover
dimlib virtio_mmio
CPU: 35 PID: 7484 Comm: test Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.10.0-rc5-gavin+ #9
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20240524-1.el9 05/24/2024
pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128
lr : split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x1c4/0x720
sp : ffff800087a4f6c0
x29: ffff800087a4f6c0 x28: ffff800087a4f720 x27: 000000001fffffff
x26: 0000000000000c40 x25: 000000000000000d x24: ffff00010625b858
x23: ffff800087a4f720 x22: ffffffdfc0780000 x21: 0000000000000000
x20: 0000000000000000 x19: ffffffdfc0780000 x18: 000000001ff40000
x17: 00000000ffffffff x16: 0000018000000000 x15: 51ec004000000000
x14: 0000e00…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-41031 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.41, 6.9.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-41031" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-41031 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.6.41, 6.9.10 — 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 6.6.41, 6.9.10.

🛡️ 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 6.6.41, 6.9.10
```
ステージング環境で 6.6.41, 6.9.10 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":"6.6.41"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.9.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-41031 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41031 linux