Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50118)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50118). 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:

btrfs: reject ro->rw reconfiguration if there are hard ro requirements

[BUG]
Syzbot reports the following crash:

BTRFS info (device loop0 state MCS): disabling free space tree
BTRFS info (device loop0 state MCS): clearing compat-ro feature flag for FREE_SPACE_TREE (0x1)
BTRFS info (device loop0 state MCS): clearing compat-ro feature flag for FREE_SPACE_TREE_VALID (0x2)
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f]
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:backup_super_roots fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:1691 [inline]
RIP: 0010:write_all_supers+0x97a/0x40f0 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:4041
Call Trace:

btrfs_commit_transaction+0x1eae/0x3740 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2530
btrfs_delete_free_space_tree+0x383/0x730 fs/btrfs/free-space-tree.c:1312
btrfs_start_pre_rw_mount+0xf28/0x1300 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:3012
btrfs_remount_rw fs/btrfs/super.c:1309 [inline]
btrfs_reconfigure+0xae6/0x2d40 fs/btrfs/super.c:1534
btrfs_reconfigure_for_mount fs/btrfs/super.c:2020 [inline]
btrfs_get_tree_subvol fs/btrfs/super.c:2079 [inline]
btrfs_get_tree+0x918/0x1920 fs/btrfs/super.c:2115
vfs_get_tree+0x90/0x2b0 fs/super.c:1800
do_new_mount+0x2be/0xb40 fs/namespace.c:3472
do_mount fs/namespace.c…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-50118 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-2024-50118" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-50118 (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.

❓ 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 6.11.6.

🛡️ 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 6.11.6
```
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。
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":"6.11.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50118 linux Fixed in: 6.11.6-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50118 linux-hwe-edge