Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-49961)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-49961). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.113, 6.6.55, 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:

media: i2c: ar0521: Use cansleep version of gpiod_set_value()

If we use GPIO reset from I2C port expander, we must use *_cansleep()
variant of GPIO functions.
This was not done in ar0521_power_on()/ar0521_power_off() functions.
Let's fix that.

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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11 at drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:3496 gpiod_set_value+0x74/0x7c
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/u16:0 Not tainted 6.10.0 #53
Hardware name: Diasom DS-RK3568-SOM-EVB (DT)
Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func
pstate: 80400009 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : gpiod_set_value+0x74/0x7c
lr : ar0521_power_on+0xcc/0x290
sp : ffffff8001d7ab70
x29: ffffff8001d7ab70 x28: ffffff80027dcc90 x27: ffffff8003c82000
x26: ffffff8003ca9250 x25: ffffffc080a39c60 x24: ffffff8003ca9088
x23: ffffff8002402720 x22: ffffff8003ca9080 x21: ffffff8003ca9088
x20: 0000000000000000 x19: ffffff8001eb2a00 x18: ffffff80efeeac80
x17: 756d2d6332692f30 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000
x14: ffffff8001d91d40 x13: 0000000000000016 x12: ffffffc080e98930
x11: ffffff8001eb2880 x10: 0000000000000890 x9 : ffffff8001d7a9f0
x8 : ffffff8001d92570 x7 : ffffff80efeeac80 x6 : 000000003fc6e780
x5 : ffffff8001d91c80 x4 : 0000000000000002 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000001
Call trace:
gpiod_set_value+0x74/0x7c
ar0521_power_on+0xcc/0x290
...

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-49961 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.113, 6.6.55, 6.10.14, 6.11.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-49961" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-49961 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.113, 6.6.55, 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 6.1.113, 6.6.55, 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 6.1.113, 6.6.55, 6.10.14, 6.11.3
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.113, 6.6.55, 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":"6.0.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.113"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.55"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"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-2024-49961 linux Fixed in: 6.1.115-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-49961 linux-hwe-edge