Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-46790)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-46790). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.10.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

codetag: debug: mark codetags for poisoned page as empty

When PG_hwpoison pages are freed they are treated differently in
free_pages_prepare() and instead of being released they are isolated.

Page allocation tag counters are decremented at this point since the page
is considered not in use. Later on when such pages are released by
unpoison_memory(), the allocation tag counters will be decremented again
and the following warning gets reported:

[ 113.930443][ T3282] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 113.931105][ T3282] alloc_tag was not set
[ 113.931576][ T3282] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 3282 at ./include/linux/alloc_tag.h:130 pgalloc_tag_sub.part.66+0x154/0x164
[ 113.932866][ T3282] Modules linked in: hwpoison_inject fuse ip6t_rpfilter ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_conntrack ebtable_nat ebtable_broute ip6table_nat ip6table_man4
[ 113.941638][ T3282] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 3282 Comm: madvise11 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.11.0-rc4-dirty #18
[ 113.943003][ T3282] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[ 113.943453][ T3282] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 2/2/2022
[ 113.944378][ T3282] pstate: 40400005 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 113.945319][ T3282] pc : pgalloc_tag_sub.part.66+0x154/0x164
[ 113.946016][ T3282] lr : pgalloc_tag_sub.part.66+0x154/0x164
[ 113.946706][ T3282] sp : ffff800087093a10
[ 113.947197][ T3282] x29: ffff800087093a10…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-46790 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.10.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-46790" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-46790 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.10.10 — 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 6.10.10.

🛡️ 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 6.10.10
```
ステージング環境で 6.10.10 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":"6.10.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46790 linux Fixed in: 6.10.11-1