Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-42321)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-42321). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.103, 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:

net: flow_dissector: use DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE

The following splat is easy to reproduce upstream as well as in -stable
kernels. Florian Westphal provided the following commit:

d1dab4f71d37 ("net: add and use __skb_get_hash_symmetric_net")

but this complementary fix has been also suggested by Willem de Bruijn
and it can be easily backported to -stable kernel which consists in
using DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE instead to silence the following splat
given __skb_get_hash() is used by the nftables tracing infrastructure to
to identify packets in traces.

[69133.561393] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[69133.561404] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 43576 at net/core/flow_dissector.c:1104 __skb_flow_dissect+0x134f/
[...]
[69133.561944] CPU: 0 PID: 43576 Comm: socat Not tainted 6.10.0-rc7+ #379
[69133.561959] RIP: 0010:__skb_flow_dissect+0x134f/0x2ad0
[69133.561970] Code: 83 f9 04 0f 84 b3 00 00 00 45 85 c9 0f 84 aa 00 00 00 41 83 f9 02 0f 84 81 fc ff
ff 44 0f b7 b4 24 80 00 00 00 e9 8b f9 ff ff <0f> 0b e9 20 f3 ff ff 41 f6 c6 20 0f 84 e4 ef ff ff 48 8d 7b 12 e8
[69133.561979] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000006fc0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[69133.561988] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff82f33e20 RCX: ffffffff81ab7e19
[69133.561994] RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffc90000007388 RDI: ffff888103a1b418
[69133.562001] RBP: ffffc90000007310 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[69133.562007] R10: ffffc90000007388 R11: ffffffff810cface R12:…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-42321 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.103, 6.6.44, 6.10.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-42321" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-42321 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.103, 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 6.1.103, 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 6.1.103, 6.6.44, 6.10.3
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.103, 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":"5.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.103"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.44"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.10.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42321 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42321 linux-hwe-edge