Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-44943)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-44943). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.47 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

mm: gup: stop abusing try_grab_folio

A kernel warning was reported when pinning folio in CMA memory when
launching SEV virtual machine. The splat looks like:

[ 464.325306] WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 6734 at mm/gup.c:1313 __get_user_pages+0x423/0x520
[ 464.325464] CPU: 13 PID: 6734 Comm: qemu-kvm Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.6.33+ #6
[ 464.325477] RIP: 0010:__get_user_pages+0x423/0x520
[ 464.325515] Call Trace:
[ 464.325520]
[ 464.325523] ? __get_user_pages+0x423/0x520
[ 464.325528] ? __warn+0x81/0x130
[ 464.325536] ? __get_user_pages+0x423/0x520
[ 464.325541] ? report_bug+0x171/0x1a0
[ 464.325549] ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70
[ 464.325554] ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70
[ 464.325558] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
[ 464.325567] ? __get_user_pages+0x423/0x520
[ 464.325575] __gup_longterm_locked+0x212/0x7a0
[ 464.325583] internal_get_user_pages_fast+0xfb/0x190
[ 464.325590] pin_user_pages_fast+0x47/0x60
[ 464.325598] sev_pin_memory+0xca/0x170 [kvm_amd]
[ 464.325616] sev_mem_enc_register_region+0x81/0x130 [kvm_amd]

Per the analysis done by yangge, when starting the SEV virtual machine, it
will call pin_user_pages_fast(..., FOLL_LONGTERM, ...) to pin the memory.
But the page is in CMA area, so fast GUP will fail then fallback to the
slow path due to the longterm pinnalbe check in try_grab_folio().

The slow path will try to pin the pages then migrate them out of CMA area.
But the slow path…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-44943 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.47 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-44943" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-44943 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.6.47 — 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 6.6.47.

🛡️ 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 6.6.47
```
ステージング環境で 6.6.47 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":"6.6.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.47"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44943 linux Fixed in: 6.10.3-1