Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50107)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50107). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.11.6 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
platform/x86/intel/pmc: Fix pmc_core_iounmap to call iounmap for valid addresses
Commit 50c6dbdfd16e ("x86/ioremap: Improve iounmap() address range checks")
introduces a WARN when adrress ranges of iounmap are invalid. On Thinkpad
P1 Gen 7 (Meteor Lake-P) this caused the following warning to appear:
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 713 at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:461 iounmap+0x58/0x1f0
Modules linked in: rfkill(+) snd_timer(+) fjes(+) snd soundcore intel_pmc_core(+)
int3403_thermal(+) int340x_thermal_zone intel_vsec pmt_telemetry acpi_pad pmt_class
acpi_tad int3400_thermal acpi_thermal_rel joydev loop nfnetlink zram xe drm_suballoc_helper
nouveau i915 mxm_wmi drm_ttm_helper gpu_sched drm_gpuvm drm_exec drm_buddy i2c_algo_bit
crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ttm crc32c_intel polyval_clmulni rtsx_pci_sdmmc ucsi_acpi
polyval_generic mmc_core hid_multitouch drm_display_helper ghash_clmulni_intel typec_ucsi
nvme sha512_ssse3 video sha256_ssse3 nvme_core intel_vpu sha1_ssse3 rtsx_pci cec typec
nvme_auth i2c_hid_acpi i2c_hid wmi pinctrl_meteorlake serio_raw ip6_tables ip_tables fuse
CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 713 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.12.0-rc2iounmap+ #42
Hardware name: LENOVO 21KWCTO1WW/21KWCTO1WW, BIOS N48ET19W (1.06 ) 07/18/2024
RIP: 0010:iounmap+0x58/0x1f0
Code: 85 6a 01 00 00 48 8b 05 e6 e2 28 04 48 39 c5 72 19 eb 26 cc cc cc 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 00 32 00 48 8d 44 02 ff 48 39 c5 72 23 <0f> 0b 48 83 c4 08 5b 5d 41 5c c3 cc…
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-50107 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.11.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-50107" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2024-50107 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.11.6 — 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.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.11.6.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
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
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1Identify 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。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kernel to 6.11.6ステージング環境で 6.11.6 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。
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3Post-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
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50107 linux Fixed in: 6.11.6-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50107 linux-hwe-edge
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org