Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-44976)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-44976). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.10.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

ata: pata_macio: Fix DMA table overflow

Kolbjørn and Jonáš reported that their 32-bit PowerMacs were crashing
in pata-macio since commit 09fe2bfa6b83 ("ata: pata_macio: Fix
max_segment_size with PAGE_SIZE == 64K").

For example:

kernel BUG at drivers/ata/pata_macio.c:544!
Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
BE PAGE_SIZE=4K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PowerMac
...
NIP pata_macio_qc_prep+0xf4/0x190
LR pata_macio_qc_prep+0xfc/0x190
Call Trace:
0xc1421660 (unreliable)
ata_qc_issue+0x14c/0x2d4
__ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x200/0x53c
ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x50/0xe0
scsi_queue_rq+0x788/0xb1c
__blk_mq_issue_directly+0x58/0xf4
blk_mq_plug_issue_direct+0x8c/0x1b4
blk_mq_flush_plug_list.part.0+0x584/0x5e0
__blk_flush_plug+0xf8/0x194
__submit_bio+0x1b8/0x2e0
submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x230/0x304
btrfs_work_helper+0x200/0x338
process_one_work+0x1a8/0x338
worker_thread+0x364/0x4c0
kthread+0x100/0x104
start_kernel_thread+0x10/0x14

That commit increased max_segment_size to 64KB, with the justification
that the SCSI core was already using that size when PAGE_SIZE == 64KB,
and that there was existing logic to split over-sized requests.

However with a sufficiently large request, the splitting logic causes
each sg to be split into two commands in the DMA table, leading to
overflow of the DMA table, triggering the BUG_ON().

With default se…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-44976 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.10.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-44976" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-44976 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.10.7 — 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 6.10.7.

🛡️ 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 6.10.7
```
ステージング環境で 6.10.7 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":"6.10.0"},{"fixed":"6.10.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44976 linux Fixed in: 6.10.7-1