Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-43900)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-43900). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.105, 6.6.46, 6.10.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

media: xc2028: avoid use-after-free in load_firmware_cb()

syzkaller reported use-after-free in load_firmware_cb() 1.
The reason is because the module allocated a struct tuner in tuner_probe(),
and then the module initialization failed, the struct tuner was released.
A worker which created during module initialization accesses this struct
tuner later, it caused use-after-free.

The process is as follows:

task-6504 worker_thread
tuner_probe <= alloc dvb_frontend [2]
...
request_firmware_nowait <= create a worker
...
tuner_remove <= free dvb_frontend
...
request_firmware_work_func <= the firmware is ready
load_firmware_cb <= but now the dvb_frontend has been freed

To fix the issue, check the dvd_frontend in load_firmware_cb(), if it is
null, report a warning and just return.

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in load_firmware_cb+0x1310/0x17a0
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8000d7ca2308 by task kworker/2:3/6504

 Call trace:
  load_firmware_cb+0x1310/0x17a0
  request_firmware_work_func+0x128/0x220
  process_one_work+0x770/0x1824
  worker_thread+0x488/0xea0
  kthread+0x300/0x430
  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

 Allocated by task 6504:
  kzalloc
  tuner_probe+0xb0/0x1430
  i…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-43900 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.105, 6.6.46, 6.10.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-43900" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-43900 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.105, 6.6.46, 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 6.1.105, 6.6.46, 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 6.1.105, 6.6.46, 6.10.5
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.105, 6.6.46, 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":"3.6.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.105"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.46"}]},{"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-2024-43900 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-43900 linux Fixed in: 3.13.0-204.255