Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50224)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50224). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.60, 6.11.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Fix crash when not using GPIO chip select

Add check for the return value of spi_get_csgpiod() to avoid passing a NULL
pointer to gpiod_direction_output(), preventing a crash when GPIO chip
select is not used.

Fix below crash:
[ 4.251960] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[ 4.260762] Mem abort info:
[ 4.263556] ESR = 0x0000000096000004
[ 4.267308] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 4.272624] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 4.275681] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 4.278822] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
[ 4.283704] Data abort info:
[ 4.286583] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[ 4.292074] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[ 4.297130] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[ 4.302445] [0000000000000000] user address but active_mm is swapper
[ 4.308805] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 4.315072] Modules linked in:
[ 4.318124] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc4-next-20241023-00008-ga20ec42c5fc1 #359
[ 4.328130] Hardware name: LS1046A QDS Board (DT)
[ 4.332832] pstate: 40000005 (nZcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 4.339794] pc : gpiod_direction_output+0x34/0x5c
[ 4.344505] lr : gpiod_direction_output+0x18/0x5c
[ 4.349208] sp : ffff80008003b8f0
[ 4.352517] x29: ffff80008003b8f0 x28: 00000000…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-50224 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.60, 6.11.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-50224" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-50224 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.6.60, 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: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 6.6.60, 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 6.6.60, 6.11.7
```
ステージング環境で 6.6.60, 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":"6.4.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.60"}]},{"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-2024-50224 linux Fixed in: 6.11.7-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50224 linux-hwe-edge