Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50221)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50221). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.63, 6.11.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

drm/amd/pm: Vangogh: Fix kernel memory out of bounds write

KASAN reports that the GPU metrics table allocated in
vangogh_tables_init() is not large enough for the memset done in
smu_cmn_init_soft_gpu_metrics(). Condensed report follows:

[ 33.861314] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in smu_cmn_init_soft_gpu_metrics+0x73/0x200 [amdgpu]
[ 33.861799] Write of size 168 at addr ffff888129f59500 by task mangoapp/1067
...
[ 33.861808] CPU: 6 UID: 1000 PID: 1067 Comm: mangoapp Tainted: G W 6.12.0-rc4 #356 1a56f59a8b5182eeaf67eb7cb8b13594dd23b544
[ 33.861816] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[ 33.861818] Hardware name: Valve Galileo/Galileo, BIOS F7G0107 12/01/2023
[ 33.861822] Call Trace:
[ 33.861826]
[ 33.861829] dump_stack_lvl+0x66/0x90
[ 33.861838] print_report+0xce/0x620
[ 33.861853] kasan_report+0xda/0x110
[ 33.862794] kasan_check_range+0xfd/0x1a0
[ 33.862799] __asan_memset+0x23/0x40
[ 33.862803] smu_cmn_init_soft_gpu_metrics+0x73/0x200 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f676eba412c20eaab792779]
[ 33.863306] vangogh_get_gpu_metrics_v2_4+0x123/0xad0 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f676eba412c20eaab792779]
[ 33.864257] vangogh_common_get_gpu_metrics+0xb0c/0xbc0 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f676eba412c20eaab792779]
[ 33.865682] amdgpu_dpm_get_gpu_metrics+0xcc/0x110 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f676eba412c20eaab792779]
[ 33.866160] amdgpu_get_gpu_metrics+0x154/0x2d0 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f67…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-50221 has been found in Kernel.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.63, 6.11.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-50221" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-50221 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.6.63, 6.11.7 — 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: ?. Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 6.6.63, 6.11.7.

🛡️ 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 6.6.63, 6.11.7
```
ステージング環境で 6.6.63, 6.11.7 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":"6.6.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.63"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.11.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50221 linux Fixed in: 6.11.7-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50221 linux-hwe-edge