Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-43899)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-43899). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.120, 6.10.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

drm/amd/display: Fix null pointer deref in dcn20_resource.c

Fixes a hang thats triggered when MPV is run on a DCN401 dGPU:

mpv --hwdec=vaapi --vo=gpu --hwdec-codecs=all

and then enabling fullscreen playback (double click on the video)

The following calltrace will be seen:

[ 181.843989] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[ 181.843997] #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
[ 181.844003] #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
[ 181.844009] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 181.844020] Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 181.844028] CPU: 6 PID: 1892 Comm: gnome-shell Tainted: G W OE 6.5.0-41-generic #41~22.04.2-Ubuntu
[ 181.844038] Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/CROSSHAIR VI HERO, BIOS 6302 10/23/2018
[ 181.844044] RIP: 0010:0x0
[ 181.844079] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
[ 181.844084] RSP: 0018:ffffb593c2b8f7b0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 181.844093] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000004
[ 181.844099] RDX: ffffb593c2b8f804 RSI: ffffb593c2b8f7e0 RDI: ffff9e3c8e758400
[ 181.844105] RBP: ffffb593c2b8f7b8 R08: ffffb593c2b8f9c8 R09: ffffb593c2b8f96c
[ 181.844110] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffb593c2b8f9c8
[ 181.844115] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff9e3c88000000 R15: 0000000000000005
[ 181.844121] FS: 00007c6e323bb5c0(0000) GS:ffff9e3f85f80000(0000) knlGS:000000000…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-43899 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.120, 6.10.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-43899" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-43899 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.6.120, 6.10.5 — 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 6.6.120, 6.10.5.

🛡️ 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 6.6.120, 6.10.5
```
ステージング環境で 6.6.120, 6.10.5 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":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.120"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.10.5"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-43899 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-43899 linux-hwe-edge