Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-46848)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-46848). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

perf/x86/intel: Limit the period on Haswell

Running the ltp test cve-2015-3290 concurrently reports the following
warnings.

perfevents: irq loop stuck!
WARNING: CPU: 31 PID: 32438 at arch/x86/events/intel/core.c:3174
intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x285/0x370
Call Trace:

? __warn+0xa4/0x220
? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x285/0x370
? __report_bug+0x123/0x130
? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x285/0x370
? __report_bug+0x123/0x130
? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x285/0x370
? report_bug+0x3e/0xa0
? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70
? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x50
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
? irq_work_claim+0x1e/0x40
? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x285/0x370
perf_event_nmi_handler+0x3d/0x60
nmi_handle+0x104/0x330

Thanks to Thomas Gleixner's analysis, the issue is caused by the low
initial period (1) of the frequency estimation algorithm, which triggers
the defects of the HW, specifically erratum HSW11 and HSW143. (For the
details, please refer https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87plq9l5d2.ffs@tglx/)

The HSW11 requires a period larger than 100 for the INST_RETIRED.ALL
event, but the initial period in the freq mode is 1. The erratum is the
same as the BDM11, which has been supported in the kernel. A minimum
period of 128 is enforced as well on HSW.

HSW143 is regarding that the fixed counter 1 may overcount 32 with the
Hyper-Threading is enabled. However, based on the test, the hardware
has more issues than it tells. Be…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-46848 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.110, 6.6.51, 6.10.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-46848" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-46848 (Kernel)
Patched: 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 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 6.1.110, 6.6.51, 6.10.10
```
ステージング環境で 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":"3.11.0"},{"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-2024-46848 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46848 linux