Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-49942)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-49942). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.10.14, 6.11.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

drm/xe: Prevent null pointer access in xe_migrate_copy

xe_migrate_copy designed to copy content of TTM resources. When source
resource is null, it will trigger a NULL pointer dereference in
xe_migrate_copy. To avoid this situation, update lacks source flag to
true for this case, the flag will trigger xe_migrate_clear rather than
xe_migrate_copy.

Issue trace:
<7> [317.089847] xe 0000:00:02.0: [drm:xe_migrate_copy [xe]] Pass 14,
sizes: 4194304 & 4194304
<7> [317.089945] xe 0000:00:02.0: [drm:xe_migrate_copy [xe]] Pass 15,
sizes: 4194304 & 4194304
<1> [317.128055] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:
0000000000000010
<1> [317.128064] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
<1> [317.128066] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
<6> [317.128069] PGD 0 P4D 0
<4> [317.128071] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
<4> [317.128074] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1440 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted:
G U N 6.11.0-rc7-xe #1
<4> [317.128078] Tainted: [U]=USER, [N]=TEST
<4> [317.128080] Hardware name: Intel Corporation Lunar Lake Client
Platform/LNL-M LP5 RVP1, BIOS LNLMFWI1.R00.3221.D80.2407291239 07/29/2024
<4> [317.128082] RIP: 0010:xe_migrate_copy+0x66/0x13e0 [xe]
<4> [317.128158] Code: 00 00 48 89 8d e0 fe ff ff 48 8b 40 10 4c 89 85 c8
fe ff ff 44 88 8d bd fe ff ff 65 48 8b 3c 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 7d d0 31
ff <8b> 79 10 48 89 85 a0 fe ff ff 48 8b 00 48 89 b5 d8 fe ff ff 83 ff
<4> [317.12…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-49942 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.10.14, 6.11.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-49942" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-49942 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.10.14, 6.11.3 — 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 6.10.14, 6.11.3.

🛡️ 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 6.10.14, 6.11.3
```
ステージング環境で 6.10.14, 6.11.3 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":"6.8.0"},{"fixed":"6.10.14"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.11.0"},{"fixed":"6.11.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49942 linux Fixed in: 6.11.4-1