Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-54683)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-54683). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.67, 6.12.6 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

netfilter: IDLETIMER: Fix for possible ABBA deadlock

Deletion of the last rule referencing a given idletimer may happen at
the same time as a read of its file in sysfs:

| ======================================================
| WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected

6.12.0-rc7-01692-g5e9a28f41134-dirty #594 Not tainted
iptables/3303 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff8881057e04b8 (kn->active#48){++++}-{0:0}, at: __kernfs_remove+0x20

but task is already holding lock:
ffffffffa0249068 (list_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: idletimer_tg_destroy_v]

which lock already depends on the new lock.

A simple reproducer is:

Avoid this by freeing list_mutex right after deleting the element from
the list, then continuing with the teardown.

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-54683 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.67, 6.12.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-54683" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-54683 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.6.67, 6.12.6 — 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 6.6.67, 6.12.6.

🛡️ 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 6.6.67, 6.12.6
```
ステージング環境で 6.6.67, 6.12.6 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":"2.6.36"},{"fixed":"6.6.67"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-54683 linux-lts
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-54683 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-54683 linux