Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-53052)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-53052). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.230, 5.15.172, 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:

io_uring/rw: fix missing NOWAIT check for O_DIRECT start write

When io_uring starts a write, it'll call kiocb_start_write() to bump the
super block rwsem, preventing any freezes from happening while that
write is in-flight. The freeze side will grab that rwsem for writing,
excluding any new writers from happening and waiting for existing writes
to finish. But io_uring unconditionally uses kiocb_start_write(), which
will block if someone is currently attempting to freeze the mount point.
This causes a deadlock where freeze is waiting for previous writes to
complete, but the previous writes cannot complete, as the task that is
supposed to complete them is blocked waiting on starting a new write.
This results in the following stuck trace showing that dependency with
the write blocked starting a new write:

task:fio state:D stack:0 pid:886 tgid:886 ppid:876
Call trace:
__switch_to+0x1d8/0x348
__schedule+0x8e8/0x2248
schedule+0x110/0x3f0
percpu_rwsem_wait+0x1e8/0x3f8
__percpu_down_read+0xe8/0x500
io_write+0xbb8/0xff8
io_issue_sqe+0x10c/0x1020
io_submit_sqes+0x614/0x2110
__arm64_sys_io_uring_enter+0x524/0x1038
invoke_syscall+0x74/0x268
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x160/0x238
do_el0_svc+0x44/0x60
el0_svc+0x44/0xb0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x118/0x128
el0t_64_sync+0x168/0x170
INFO: task fsfreeze:7364 blocked for more than 15 seconds.
Not tainted 6.12.0-rc5-00063-g76aaf945701c #79…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-53052 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.230, 5.15.172, 6.1.116, 6.6.60, 6.11.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-53052" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-53052 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 5.10.230, 5.15.172, 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 5.10.230, 5.15.172, 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 5.10.230, 5.15.172, 6.1.116, 6.6.60, 6.11.7
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.230, 5.15.172, 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":"5.1.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.230"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.172"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"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-2024-53052 linux Fixed in: 5.10.234-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53052 linux-hwe-edge