Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-47694)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-47694). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.11.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

IB/mlx5: Fix UMR pd cleanup on error flow of driver init

The cited commit moves the pd allocation from function
mlx5r_umr_resource_cleanup() to a new function mlx5r_umr_cleanup().
So the fix in commit [1] is broken. In error flow, will hit panic [2].

Fix it by checking pd pointer to avoid panic if it is NULL;

[1] RDMA/mlx5: Fix UMR cleanup on error flow of driver init
[2]
[ 347.567063] infiniband mlx5_0: Couldn't register device with driver model
[ 347.591382] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
[ 347.593438] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 347.595176] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 347.596962] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 347.601361] RIP: 0010:ib_dealloc_pd_user+0x12/0xc0 [ib_core]
[ 347.604171] RSP: 0018:ffff888106293b10 EFLAGS: 00010282
[ 347.604834] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000e RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 347.605672] RDX: ffff888106293ad0 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 347.606529] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff888106293ae0 R09: ffff888106293ae0
[ 347.607379] R10: 0000000000000a06 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 347.608224] R13: ffffffffa0704dc0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
[ 347.609067] FS: 00007fdc720cd9c0(0000) GS:ffff88852c880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 347.610094] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 347.610727] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 000000010301…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-47694 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.11.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-47694" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-47694 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.11.2 — 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 6.11.2.

🛡️ 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 6.11.2
```
ステージング環境で 6.11.2 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

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