Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50122)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50122). 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:

PCI: Hold rescan lock while adding devices during host probe

Since adding the PCI power control code, we may end up with a race between
the pwrctl platform device rescanning the bus and host controller probe
functions. The latter need to take the rescan lock when adding devices or
we may end up in an undefined state having two incompletely added devices
and hit the following crash when trying to remove the device over sysfs:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] SMP
Call trace:
__pi_strlen+0x14/0x150
kernfs_find_ns+0x80/0x13c
kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x54/0xf0
sysfs_remove_bin_file+0x24/0x34
pci_remove_resource_files+0x3c/0x84
pci_remove_sysfs_dev_files+0x28/0x38
pci_stop_bus_device+0x8c/0xd8
pci_stop_bus_device+0x40/0xd8
pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked+0x28/0x48
remove_store+0x70/0xb0
dev_attr_store+0x20/0x38
sysfs_kf_write+0x58/0x78
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0xe8/0x184
vfs_write+0x2dc/0x308
ksys_write+0x7c/0xec

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-50122 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-2024-50122" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-50122 (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":"6.11.0"},{"fixed":"6.11.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50122 linux Fixed in: 6.11.6-1