Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-42315)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-42315). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.232, 5.15.175, 6.6.44, 6.10.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

exfat: fix potential deadlock on __exfat_get_dentry_set

When accessing a file with more entries than ES_MAX_ENTRY_NUM, the bh-array
is allocated in __exfat_get_entry_set. The problem is that the bh-array is
allocated with GFP_KERNEL. It does not make sense. In the following cases,
a deadlock for sbi->s_lock between the two processes may occur.

   CPU0                CPU1
   ----                ----

kswapd
balance_pgdat
lock(fs_reclaim)
exfat_iterate
lock(&sbi->s_lock)
exfat_readdir
exfat_get_uniname_from_ext_entry
exfat_get_dentry_set
__exfat_get_dentry_set
kmalloc_array
...
lock(fs_reclaim)
...
evict
exfat_evict_inode
lock(&sbi->s_lock)

To fix this, let's allocate bh-array with GFP_NOFS.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-42315 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.232, 5.15.175, 6.6.44, 6.10.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-42315" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-42315 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.232, 5.15.175, 6.6.44, 6.10.3 — 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 5.10.232, 5.15.175, 6.6.44, 6.10.3.

🛡️ 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 5.10.232, 5.15.175, 6.6.44, 6.10.3
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.232, 5.15.175, 6.6.44, 6.10.3 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":"0"},{"fixed":"5.10.232"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.175"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.44"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.10.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42315 linux Fixed in: 5.10.234-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42315 linux-hwe-edge