Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-44982)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-44982). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.166, 6.1.107, 6.6.48, 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/msm/dpu: cleanup FB if dpu_format_populate_layout fails

If the dpu_format_populate_layout() fails, then FB is prepared, but not
cleaned up. This ends up leaking the pin_count on the GEM object and
causes a splat during DRM file closure:

msm_obj->pin_count
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 569 at drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.c:121 update_lru_locked+0xc4/0xcc
[...]
Call trace:
update_lru_locked+0xc4/0xcc
put_pages+0xac/0x100
msm_gem_free_object+0x138/0x180
drm_gem_object_free+0x1c/0x30
drm_gem_object_handle_put_unlocked+0x108/0x10c
drm_gem_object_release_handle+0x58/0x70
idr_for_each+0x68/0xec
drm_gem_release+0x28/0x40
drm_file_free+0x174/0x234
drm_release+0xb0/0x160
__fput+0xc0/0x2c8
__fput_sync+0x50/0x5c
__arm64_sys_close+0x38/0x7c
invoke_syscall+0x48/0x118
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0
do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
el0_svc+0x4c/0x120
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x100/0x12c
el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
irq event stamp: 129818
hardirqs last enabled at (129817): [] console_unlock+0x118/0x124
hardirqs last disabled at (129818): [] el1_dbg+0x24/0x8c
softirqs last enabled at (129808): [] handle_softirqs+0x4c8/0x4e8
softirqs last disabled at (129785): [] __do_softirq+0x14/0x20

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/600714/

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-44982 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.166, 6.1.107, 6.6.48, 6.10.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-44982" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-44982 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.166, 6.1.107, 6.6.48, 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 5.15.166, 6.1.107, 6.6.48, 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 5.15.166, 6.1.107, 6.6.48, 6.10.7
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.166, 6.1.107, 6.6.48, 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":"4.19.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.166"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.107"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.48"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.10.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44982 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-44982 linux-hwe-edge