Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50255)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-50255). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.116, 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:

Bluetooth: hci: fix null-ptr-deref in hci_read_supported_codecs

Fix __hci_cmd_sync_sk() to return not NULL for unknown opcodes.

__hci_cmd_sync_sk() returns NULL if a command returns a status event.
However, it also returns NULL where an opcode doesn't exist in the
hci_cc table because hci_cmd_complete_evt() assumes status = skb->data[0]
for unknown opcodes.
This leads to null-ptr-deref in cmd_sync for HCI_OP_READ_LOCAL_CODECS as
there is no hci_cc for HCI_OP_READ_LOCAL_CODECS, which always assumes
status = skb->data[0].

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000070-0x0000000000000077]
CPU: 1 PID: 2000 Comm: kworker/u9:5 Not tainted 6.9.0-ga6bcb805883c-dirty #10
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: hci7 hci_power_on
RIP: 0010:hci_read_supported_codecs+0xb9/0x870 net/bluetooth/hci_codec.c:138
Code: 08 48 89 ef e8 b8 c1 8f fd 48 8b 75 00 e9 96 00 00 00 49 89 c6 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 8d 60 70 4c 89 e3 48 c1 eb 03 <0f> b6 04 13 84 c0 0f 85 82 06 00 00 41 83 3c 24 02 77 0a e8 bf 78
RSP: 0018:ffff888120bafac8 EFLAGS: 00010212
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000e RCX: ffff8881173f0040
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffffa58496c0 RDI: ffff88810b9ad1e4
RBP: ffff88810b9ac000 R08: ffffffffa77882a7 R09: 1ffffffff4ef1054
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff4ef1055 R12: 0000000000000070
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88810b…

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

Auto-generated summary

Assembled by SecPulse from the source data (CVSS, CWE, affected versions) using templates — no AI involved. Check the original description and references below for exact details.

A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-50255 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.116, 6.6.60, 6.11.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-50255" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-50255 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.1.116, 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 6.1.116, 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 6.1.116, 6.6.60, 6.11.7
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.116, 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":"5.17.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.116"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"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-2024-50255 linux Fixed in: 6.1.119-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50255 linux-hwe-edge