Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50231)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50231). 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:

iio: gts-helper: Fix memory leaks in iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table()

modprobe iio-test-gts and rmmod it, then the following memory leak
occurs:

unreferenced object 0xffffff80c810be00 (size 64):
  comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1654, jiffies 4294913981
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    02 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 40 00 00 00  ........ ...@...
    80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 08 00 00  ................
  backtrace (crc a63d875e):
    [<0000000028c1b3c2>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
    [<000000001d6ecc87>] __kmalloc_noprof+0x2bc/0x3c0
    [<00000000393795c1>] devm_iio_init_iio_gts+0x4b4/0x16f4
    [<0000000071bb4b09>] 0xffffffdf052a62e0
    [<000000000315bc18>] 0xffffffdf052a6488
    [<00000000f9dc55b5>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac
    [<00000000175a3fd4>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec
    [<00000000f505065d>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374
    [<00000000bbfb0e5d>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
unreferenced object 0xffffff80cbfe9e70 (size 16):
  comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1658, jiffies 4294914015
  hex dump (first 16 bytes):
    10 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ....@...........
  backtrace (crc 857f0cb4):
    [<0000000028c1b3c2>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
    [<000000001d6ecc87>] __kmalloc_noprof+0x2bc/0x3c0
    [<00000000393795c1>] devm_iio_init_iio_gts+0x4b4/0x16f4
    [<0000000071bb4b09>] 0xffffffdf052a62e0
    [<000000007d089d45>] 0xffffffdf052a6864…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-50231 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-2024-50231" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-50231 (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-2024-50231 linux Fixed in: 6.11.7-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50231 linux-hwe-edge