Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-46795)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-46795). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.167, 6.1.110, 6.6.51, 6.10.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

ksmbd: unset the binding mark of a reused connection

Steve French reported null pointer dereference error from sha256 lib.
cifs.ko can send session setup requests on reused connection.
If reused connection is used for binding session, conn->binding can
still remain true and generate_preauth_hash() will not set
sess->Preauth_HashValue and it will be NULL.
It is used as a material to create an encryption key in
ksmbd_gen_smb311_encryptionkey. ->Preauth_HashValue cause null pointer
dereference error from crypto_shash_update().

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 8 PID: 429254 Comm: kworker/8:39
Hardware name: LENOVO 20MAS08500/20MAS08500, BIOS N2CET69W (1.52 )
Workqueue: ksmbd-io handle_ksmbd_work [ksmbd]
RIP: 0010:lib_sha256_base_do_update.isra.0+0x11e/0x1d0 [sha256_ssse3]

? show_regs+0x6d/0x80
? __die+0x24/0x80
? page_fault_oops+0x99/0x1b0
? do_user_addr_fault+0x2ee/0x6b0
? exc_page_fault+0x83/0x1b0
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30
? __pfx_sha256_transform_rorx+0x10/0x10 [sha256_ssse3]
? lib_sha256_base_do_update.isra.0+0x11e/0x1d0 [sha256_ssse3]
? __pfx_sha256_transform_rorx+0x10/0x10 [sha256_ssse3]
? __pfx_sha256_transform_rorx+0x10/0x10 [sha256_ssse3]
_sha256_update+0x77/0xa0 [sha256_ssse3]
sha256_avx2_update+0x15/0x30 [sha256_ssse3]
crypto_shas…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-46795 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.167, 6.1.110, 6.6.51, 6.10.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-46795" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-46795 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.167, 6.1.110, 6.6.51, 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 5.15.167, 6.1.110, 6.6.51, 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 5.15.167, 6.1.110, 6.6.51, 6.10.10
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.167, 6.1.110, 6.6.51, 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":"5.15.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.167"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.110"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.51"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.10.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46795 linux Fixed in: 6.1.112-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46795 linux-hwe-edge