Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-57923)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-57923). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

btrfs: zlib: fix avail_in bytes for s390 zlib HW compression path

Since the input data length passed to zlib_compress_folios() can be
arbitrary, always setting strm.avail_in to a multiple of PAGE_SIZE may
cause read-in bytes to exceed the input range. Currently this triggers
an assert in btrfs_compress_folios() on the debug kernel (see below).
Fix strm.avail_in calculation for S390 hardware acceleration path.

assertion failed: *total_in <= orig_len, in fs/btrfs/compression.c:1041
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/compression.c:1041!
monitor event: 0040 ilc:2 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 16 UID: 0 PID: 325 Comm: kworker/u273:3 Not tainted 6.13.0-20241204.rc1.git6.fae3b21430ca.300.fc41.s390x+debug #1
Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 703 (z/VM 7.4.0)
Workqueue: btrfs-delalloc btrfs_work_helper
Krnl PSW : 0704d00180000000 0000021761df6538 (btrfs_compress_folios+0x198/0x1a0)
R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:1 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000080000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000047 0000000000000000
0000000000000006 ffffff01757bb000 000001976232fcc0 000000000000130c
000001976232fcd0 000001976232fcc8 00000118ff4a0e30 0000000000000001
00000111821ab400 0000011100000000 0000021761df6534 000001976232fb58
Krnl Code: 0000021761df6528: c020006f5ef4 larl %r2,0000021762be2310
0000021761df652e: c0e5ffb…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-57923 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-57923" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-57923 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.12.10 — 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 6.12.10.

🛡️ 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 6.12.10
```
ステージング環境で 6.12.10 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":"6.12.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-57923 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57923 linux Fixed in: 6.12.10-1