Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-44980)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-44980). 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:

drm/xe: Fix opregion leak

Being part o the display, ideally the setup and cleanup would be done by
display itself. However this is a bigger refactor that needs to be done
on both i915 and xe. For now, just fix the leak:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881a0300008 (size 192):
comm "modprobe", pid 4354, jiffies 4295647021
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 87 27 81 88 ff ff 18 80 9b 00 00 c9 ff ff ...'............
18 81 9b 00 00 c9 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 99260e31):
[] kmemleak_alloc+0x4b/0x80
[] kmalloc_trace_noprof+0x312/0x3d0
[] intel_opregion_setup+0x89/0x700 [xe]
[] xe_display_init_noirq+0x2f/0x90 [xe]
[] xe_device_probe+0x7a3/0xbf0 [xe]
[] xe_pci_probe+0x333/0x5b0 [xe]
[] local_pci_probe+0x48/0xb0
[] pci_device_probe+0xc8/0x280
[] really_probe+0xf8/0x390
[] __driver_probe_device+0x8a/0x170
[] driver_probe_device+0x23/0xb0
[] __driver_attach+0xc7/0x190
[] bus_for_each_dev+0x7d/0xd0
[] driver_attach+0x1e/0x30
[] bus_add_driver+0x117/0x250

(cherry picked from commit 6f4e43a2f771b737d991142ec4f6d4b7ff31fbb4)

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-44980 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-2024-44980" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-44980 (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":"6.8.0"},{"fixed":"6.10.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44980 linux Fixed in: 6.10.7-1