Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-46853)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-46853). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.4.285, 5.10.227, 5.15.168, 6.1.111, 6.6.52, 6.10.11 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

spi: nxp-fspi: fix the KASAN report out-of-bounds bug

Change the memcpy length to fix the out-of-bounds issue when writing the
data that is not 4 byte aligned to TX FIFO.

To reproduce the issue, write 3 bytes data to NOR chip.

dd if=3b of=/dev/mtd0
[ 36.926103] ==================================================================
[ 36.933409] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in nxp_fspi_exec_op+0x26ec/0x2838
[ 36.940514] Read of size 4 at addr ffff00081037c2a0 by task dd/455
[ 36.946721]
[ 36.948235] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 455 Comm: dd Not tainted 6.11.0-rc5-gc7b0e37c8434 #1070
[ 36.956185] Hardware name: Freescale i.MX8QM MEK (DT)
[ 36.961260] Call trace:
[ 36.963723] dump_backtrace+0x90/0xe8
[ 36.967414] show_stack+0x18/0x24
[ 36.970749] dump_stack_lvl+0x78/0x90
[ 36.974451] print_report+0x114/0x5cc
[ 36.978151] kasan_report+0xa4/0xf0
[ 36.981670] __asan_report_load_n_noabort+0x1c/0x28
[ 36.986587] nxp_fspi_exec_op+0x26ec/0x2838
[ 36.990800] spi_mem_exec_op+0x8ec/0xd30
[ 36.994762] spi_mem_no_dirmap_read+0x190/0x1e0
[ 36.999323] spi_mem_dirmap_write+0x238/0x32c
[ 37.003710] spi_nor_write_data+0x220/0x374
[ 37.007932] spi_nor_write+0x110/0x2e8
[ 37.011711] mtd_write_oob_std+0x154/0x1f0
[ 37.015838] mtd_write_oob+0x104/0x1d0
[ 37.019617] mtd_write+0xb8/0x12c
[ 37.022953] mtdchar_write+0x224/0x47c
[ 37.026732] vfs_write+0x1e4/0x8c8
[ 37.030163] ksy…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-46853 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.4.285, 5.10.227, 5.15.168, 6.1.111, 6.6.52, 6.10.11 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-46853" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-46853 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.4.285, 5.10.227, 5.15.168, 6.1.111, 6.6.52, 6.10.11 — 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 5.4.285, 5.10.227, 5.15.168, 6.1.111, 6.6.52, 6.10.11.

🛡️ 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 5.4.285, 5.10.227, 5.15.168, 6.1.111, 6.6.52, 6.10.11
```
ステージング環境で 5.4.285, 5.10.227, 5.15.168, 6.1.111, 6.6.52, 6.10.11 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":"5.1.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.285"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.227"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.168"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.111"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.52"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.10.11"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46853 linux Fixed in: 5.10.234-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46853 linux-hwe-edge