Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50083)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50083). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.228, 5.15.169, 6.1.114, 6.6.58, 6.11.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

tcp: fix mptcp DSS corruption due to large pmtu xmit

Syzkaller was able to trigger a DSS corruption:

TCP: request_sock_subflow_v4: Possible SYN flooding on port [::]:20002. Sending cookies.
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5227 at net/mptcp/protocol.c:695 __mptcp_move_skbs_from_subflow+0x20a9/0x21f0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:695
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5227 Comm: syz-executor350 Not tainted 6.11.0-syzkaller-08829-gaf9c191ac2a0 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/06/2024
RIP: 0010:__mptcp_move_skbs_from_subflow+0x20a9/0x21f0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:695
Code: 0f b6 dc 31 ff 89 de e8 b5 dd ea f5 89 d8 48 81 c4 50 01 00 00 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc e8 98 da ea f5 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 47 ff ff ff e8 8a da ea f5 90 0f 0b 90 e9 99 e0 ff ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000006db8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffffffff8ba9df18 RBX: 00000000000055f0 RCX: ffff888030023c00
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 00000000000081e5 RDI: 00000000000055f0
RBP: 1ffff110062bf1ae R08: ffffffff8ba9cf12 R09: 1ffff110062bf1b8
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10062bf1b9 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 00000000700cec61 R15: 00000000000081e5
FS: 000055556679c380(0000) GS:ffff8880b8600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020287000 CR3: 0000000077892000 CR4: 0000000…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-50083 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.228, 5.15.169, 6.1.114, 6.6.58, 6.11.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-50083" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-50083 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.228, 5.15.169, 6.1.114, 6.6.58, 6.11.5 — 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 5.10.228, 5.15.169, 6.1.114, 6.6.58, 6.11.5.

🛡️ 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 5.10.228, 5.15.169, 6.1.114, 6.6.58, 6.11.5
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.228, 5.15.169, 6.1.114, 6.6.58, 6.11.5 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":"5.6.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.228"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.169"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.114"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.58"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.11.5"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50083 linux Fixed in: 5.10.234-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50083 linux-hwe-edge