Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-46706)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-46706). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:
tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: mark last busy before uart_add_one_port
With "earlycon initcall_debug=1 loglevel=8" in bootargs, kernel
sometimes boot hang. It is because normal console still is not ready,
but runtime suspend is called, so early console putchar will hang
in waiting TRDE set in UARTSTAT.
The lpuart driver has auto suspend delay set to 3000ms, but during
uart_add_one_port, a child device serial ctrl will added and probed with
its pm runtime enabled(see serial_ctrl.c).
The runtime suspend call path is:
device_add
|-> bus_probe_device
|->device_initial_probe
|->__device_attach
|-> pm_runtime_get_sync(dev->parent);
|-> pm_request_idle(dev);
|-> pm_runtime_put(dev->parent);
So in the end, before normal console ready, the lpuart get runtime
suspended. And earlycon putchar will hang.
To address the issue, mark last busy just after pm_runtime_enable,
three seconds is long enough to switch from bootconsole to normal
console.
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-46706 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.48, 6.10.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-46706" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2024-46706 (Kernel)
Patched: 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.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.6.48, 6.10.7.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
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
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1Identify 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。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kernel to 6.6.48, 6.10.7ステージング環境で 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。
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3Post-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
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46706 linux Fixed in: 6.10.7-1
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org