Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-42252)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-42252). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.9.11 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

closures: Change BUG_ON() to WARN_ON()

If a BUG_ON() can be hit in the wild, it shouldn't be a BUG_ON()

For reference, this has popped up once in the CI, and we'll need more
info to debug it:

03240 ------------[ cut here ]------------
03240 kernel BUG at lib/closure.c:21!
03240 kernel BUG at lib/closure.c:21!
03240 Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
03240 Modules linked in:
03240 CPU: 15 PID: 40534 Comm: kworker/u80:1 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc4-ktest-ga56da69799bd #25570
03240 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
03240 Workqueue: btree_update btree_interior_update_work
03240 pstate: 00001005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT +SSBS BTYPE=--)
03240 pc : closure_put+0x224/0x2a0
03240 lr : closure_put+0x24/0x2a0
03240 sp : ffff0000d12071c0
03240 x29: ffff0000d12071c0 x28: dfff800000000000 x27: ffff0000d1207360
03240 x26: 0000000000000040 x25: 0000000000000040 x24: 0000000000000040
03240 x23: ffff0000c1f20180 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff0000c1f20168
03240 x20: 0000000040000000 x19: ffff0000c1f20140 x18: 0000000000000001
03240 x17: 0000000000003aa0 x16: 0000000000003ad0 x15: 1fffe0001c326974
03240 x14: 0000000000000a1e x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 1fffe000183e402d
03240 x11: ffff6000183e402d x10: dfff800000000000 x9 : ffff6000183e402e
03240 x8 : 0000000000000001 x7 : 00009fffe7c1bfd3 x6 : ffff0000c1f2016b
03240 x5 : ffff0000c1f20168 x4 : ffff6000183e402e x3 : ffff800081391954
03240 x2 : 00000000000…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-42252 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.9.11 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-42252" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-42252 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.9.11 — 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 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.9.11.

🛡️ 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 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.9.11
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.9.11 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":"3.10.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.120"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.64"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.9.11"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42252 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42252 linux