Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-54031)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-54031). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.4.289, 5.10.233, 5.15.176, 6.1.124, 6.6.70, 6.12.9 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

netfilter: nft_set_hash: unaligned atomic read on struct nft_set_ext

Access to genmask field in struct nft_set_ext results in unaligned
atomic read:

[ 72.130109] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff0000c2bb708c
[ 72.131036] Mem abort info:
[ 72.131213] ESR = 0x0000000096000021
[ 72.131446] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 72.132209] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 72.133216] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 72.134080] FSC = 0x21: alignment fault
[ 72.135593] Data abort info:
[ 72.137194] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000021, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[ 72.142351] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[ 72.145989] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[ 72.150115] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000237d27000
[ 72.154893] [ffff0000c2bb708c] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=180000023ffff403, pud=180000023f84b403, pmd=180000023f835403,
+pte=0068000102bb7707
[ 72.163021] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000021 [#1] SMP
[...]
[ 72.170041] CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 54 Comm: kworker/7:0 Tainted: G E 6.13.0-rc3+ #2
[ 72.170509] Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
[ 72.170720] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-stable202302-for-qemu 03/01/2023
[ 72.171192] Workqueue: events_power_efficient nft_rhash_gc [nf_tables]
[ 72.171552] pstate: 21400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 72.171915] pc : nft_rhash_gc+0x200/0x2d8 [n…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-54031 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.4.289, 5.10.233, 5.15.176, 6.1.124, 6.6.70, 6.12.9 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-54031" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-54031 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.4.289, 5.10.233, 5.15.176, 6.1.124, 6.6.70, 6.12.9 — 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 5.4.289, 5.10.233, 5.15.176, 6.1.124, 6.6.70, 6.12.9.

🛡️ 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 5.4.289, 5.10.233, 5.15.176, 6.1.124, 6.6.70, 6.12.9
```
ステージング環境で 5.4.289, 5.10.233, 5.15.176, 6.1.124, 6.6.70, 6.12.9 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":"5.4.287"},{"fixed":"5.4.289"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.10.231"},{"fixed":"5.10.233"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.15.174"},{"fixed":"5.15.176"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.1.120"},{"fixed":"6.1.124"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.6.66"},{"fixed":"6.6.70"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.12.5"},{"fixed":"6.12.9"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-54031 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.124-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-54031 linux Fixed in: 5.10.234-1