Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50138)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50138). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.115, 6.6.84, 6.11.6 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

bpf: Use raw_spinlock_t in ringbuf

The function __bpf_ringbuf_reserve is invoked from a tracepoint, which
disables preemption. Using spinlock_t in this context can lead to a
"sleep in atomic" warning in the RT variant. This issue is illustrated
in the example below:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 556208, name: test_progs
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 1
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
Preemption disabled at:
[] migrate_enable+0xc0/0x39c
CPU: 7 PID: 556208 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G
Hardware name: Qualcomm SA8775P Ride (DT)
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0xac/0x130
show_stack+0x1c/0x30
dump_stack_lvl+0xac/0xe8
dump_stack+0x18/0x30
__might_resched+0x3bc/0x4fc
rt_spin_lock+0x8c/0x1a4
__bpf_ringbuf_reserve+0xc4/0x254
bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr+0x5c/0xdc
bpf_prog_ac3d15160d62622a_test_read_write+0x104/0x238
trace_call_bpf+0x238/0x774
perf_call_bpf_enter.isra.0+0x104/0x194
perf_syscall_enter+0x2f8/0x510
trace_sys_enter+0x39c/0x564
syscall_trace_enter+0x220/0x3c0
do_el0_svc+0x138/0x1dc
el0_svc+0x54/0x130
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x134/0x150
el0t_64_sync+0x17c/0x180

Switch the spinlock to raw_spinlock_t to avoid this error.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-50138 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.115, 6.6.84, 6.11.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-50138" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-50138 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.115, 6.6.84, 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 6.1.115, 6.6.84, 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 6.1.115, 6.6.84, 6.11.6
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.115, 6.6.84, 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":"5.8.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.115"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.84"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.11.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50138 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50138 linux-hwe-edge