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Medium 5.5

Vulnerability in Linux kernel

CVE-2024-50040 First seen on SecPulse

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-50040 has been found in Linux kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Linux kernel CVE-2024-50040" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-50040 (Linux kernel) — CVSS v3 5.5
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
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 Linux kernel.

Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Linux kernel.

Severity

Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

How to fix

Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.

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. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

  1. 1
    Identify exposureidentify
    Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.

    資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Linux kernel を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。

  2. 2
    Post-deployment verificationverify
    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

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed
Linux Kernel
< 4.19.323
≥ 4.20.0, < 5.4.285
≥ 5.5.0, < 5.10.227
≥ 5.11.0, < 5.15.168
≥ 5.16.0, < 6.1.113
≥ 6.2.0, < 6.6.57
+1 more
4.19.323
5.4.285
5.10.227
5.15.168
6.1.113
6.6.57

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Original description The description as published by the source.

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

igb: Do not bring the device up after non-fatal error

Commit 004d25060c78 ("igb: Fix igb_down hung on surprise removal")
changed igb_io_error_detected() to ignore non-fatal pcie errors in order
to avoid hung task that can happen when igb_down() is called multiple
times. This caused an issue when processing transient non-fatal errors.
igb_io_resume(), which is called after igb_io_error_detected(), assumes
that device is brought down by igb_io_error_detected() if the interface
is up. This resulted in panic with stacktrace below.

[ T3256] igb 0000:09:00.0 haeth0: igb: haeth0 NIC Link is Down
[ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: Uncorrected (Non-Fatal) error received: 0000:09:00.0
[ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected (Non-Fatal), type=Transaction Layer, (Requester ID)
[ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: device [8086:1537] error status/mask=00004000/00000000
[ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: [14] CmpltTO [ 200.105524,009][ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: AER: TLP Header: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: broadcast error_detected message
[ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: Non-correctable non-fatal error reported.
[ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: broadcast mmio_enabled message
[ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: broadcast resume message
[ T292] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ T292] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:6539!
[ T292] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMP…

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory

References

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