Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-53238)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-53238). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:
Bluetooth: btmtk: adjust the position to init iso data anchor
MediaTek iso data anchor init should be moved to where MediaTek
claims iso data interface.
If there is an unexpected BT usb disconnect during setup flow,
it will cause a NULL pointer crash issue when releasing iso
anchor since the anchor wasn't been init yet. Adjust the position
to do iso data anchor init.
[ 17.137991] pc : usb_kill_anchored_urbs+0x60/0x168
[ 17.137998] lr : usb_kill_anchored_urbs+0x44/0x168
[ 17.137999] sp : ffffffc0890cb5f0
[ 17.138000] x29: ffffffc0890cb5f0 x28: ffffff80bb6c2e80
[ 17.144081] gpio gpiochip0: registered chardev handle for 1 lines
[ 17.148421] x27: 0000000000000000
[ 17.148422] x26: ffffffd301ff4298 x25: 0000000000000003 x24: 00000000000000f0
[ 17.148424] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 00000000ffffffff x21: 0000000000000001
[ 17.148425] x20: ffffffffffffffd8 x19: ffffff80c0f25560 x18: 0000000000000000
[ 17.148427] x17: ffffffd33864e408 x16: ffffffd33808f7c8 x15: 0000000000200000
[ 17.232789] x14: e0cd73cf80ffffff x13: 50f2137c0a0338c9 x12: 0000000000000001
[ 17.239912] x11: 0000000080150011 x10: 0000000000000002 x9 : 0000000000000001
[ 17.247035] x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000008080 x6 : 8080000000000000
[ 17.254158] x5 : ffffffd33808ebc0 x4 : fffffffe033dcf20 x3 : 0000000080150011
[ 17.261281] x2 : ffffff8087a91400 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffffff80c0f25588
[ 17.268404] Call…
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-53238 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.11.11, 6.12.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-53238" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2024-53238 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 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.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.11.11, 6.12.2.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
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
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1Identify 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。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kernel to 6.11.11, 6.12.2ステージング環境で 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。
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3Post-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
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-53238 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53238 linux Fixed in: 6.12.3-1
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org