Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-53105)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-53105). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.11.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

mm: page_alloc: move mlocked flag clearance into free_pages_prepare()

Syzbot reported a bad page state problem caused by a page being freed
using free_page() still having a mlocked flag at free_pages_prepare()
stage:

BUG: Bad page state in process syz.5.504 pfn:61f45
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x61f45
flags: 0xfff00000080204(referenced|workingset|mlocked|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000080204 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x400dc0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_ZERO), pid 8443, tgid 8442 (syz.5.504), ts 201884660643, free_ts 201499827394
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1f3/0x230 mm/page_alloc.c:1537
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1545 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x303f/0x3190 mm/page_alloc.c:3457
__alloc_pages_noprof+0x292/0x710 mm/page_alloc.c:4733
alloc_pages_mpol_noprof+0x3e8/0x680 mm/mempolicy.c:2265
kvm_coalesced_mmio_init+0x1f/0xf0 virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c:99
kvm_create_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1235 [inline]
kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5488 [inline]
kvm_dev_ioctl+0x12dc/0x2240 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-53105 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.11.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-53105" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-53105 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.11.10 — 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 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.11.10.

🛡️ 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 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.11.10
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.11.10 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":"5.18.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.120"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.66"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.11.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53105 linux Fixed in: 6.1.123-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53105 linux-hwe-edge