Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-53215)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-53215). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

svcrdma: fix miss destroy percpu_counter in svc_rdma_proc_init()

There's issue as follows:
RPC: Registered rdma transport module.
RPC: Registered rdma backchannel transport module.
RPC: Unregistered rdma transport module.
RPC: Unregistered rdma backchannel transport module.
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff80c609a
PGD 123fee067 P4D 123fee067 PUD 123fea067 PMD 10c624067 PTE 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
RIP: 0010:percpu_counter_destroy_many+0xf7/0x2a0
Call Trace:

__die+0x1f/0x70
page_fault_oops+0x2cd/0x860
spurious_kernel_fault+0x36/0x450
do_kern_addr_fault+0xca/0x100
exc_page_fault+0x128/0x150
asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
percpu_counter_destroy_many+0xf7/0x2a0
mmdrop+0x209/0x350
finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x481/0x840
schedule_tail+0xe/0xd0
ret_from_fork+0x23/0x80
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

If register_sysctl() return NULL, then svc_rdma_proc_cleanup() will not
destroy the percpu counters which init in svc_rdma_proc_init().
If CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is enabled, residual nodes may be in the
'percpu_counters' list. The above issue may occur once the module is
removed. If the CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU configuration is not enabled, memory
leakage occurs.
To solve above issue just destroy all percpu counters when
register_sysctl() return NULL.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-53215 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-53215" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-53215 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2 — 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 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2.

🛡️ 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 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2 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":"5.12.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.174"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.120"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.64"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.11.11"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.12.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-53215 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.120-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53215 linux Fixed in: 6.1.123-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53215 linux-hwe-edge