Vulnerability in linux-hwe-edge (UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38539)
Summary
Vulnerability in linux-hwe-edge (UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38539). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.8.0-1013.14~22.04.1 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/cma: Fix kmemleak in rdma_core observed during blktests nvme/rdma use siw When running blktests nvme/rdma, the following kmemleak issue will appear. kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector initialized (mempool available:36041) kmemleak: Automatic memory scanning thread started kmemleak: 2 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) kmemleak: 8 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) kmemleak: 17 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) kmemleak: 4 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) unreferenced object 0xffff88855da53400 (size 192): comm "rdma", pid 10630, jiffies 4296575922 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 37 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 ff ff ff 1f 00 00 00 7............... 10 34 a5 5d 85 88 ff ff 10 34 a5 5d 85 88 ff ff .4.].....4.].... backtrace (crc 47f66721): [] kmalloc_trace+0x30d/0x3b0 [] alloc_gid_entry+0x47/0x380 [ib_core] [] add_modify_gid+0x166/0x930 [ib_core] [] ib_cache_update.part.0+0x6d8/0x910 [ib_core] [] ib_cache_setup_one+0x24a/0x350 [ib_core] [] ib_register_device+0x9e/0x3a0 [ib_core] [] 0xffffffffc2a3d389 [] nldev_newlink+0x2b8/0x520 [ib_core] [] rdma_nl_rcv_msg+0x2c3/0x520 [ib_core] [] rdma_nl_rcv_skb.constprop.0.isra.0+0x23c/0x3a0 [ib_core] [] netlink_unicast+0x445/0x710 [] netlink_sendmsg+0x761/0xc40 [] __sys_sendto+0x3a9/0x420 [] __x64_sys_send…
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38539 has been found in linux-hwe-edge.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade linux-hwe-edge to 6.8.0-1013.14~22.04.1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "linux-hwe-edge UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38539" on the vendor's site.
UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38539 (linux-hwe-edge)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.8.0-1013.14~22.04.1 — 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 linux-hwe-edge.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of linux-hwe-edge.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.8.0-1013.14~22.04.1.
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 'linux-hwe-edge' . 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 'linux-hwe-edge' . | 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
linux-hwe-edge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 linux-hwe-edge to 6.8.0-1013.14~22.04.1ステージング環境で 6.8.0-1013.14~22.04.1 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
References
- advisory ubuntu.com
- advisory ubuntu.com
- advisory ubuntu.com
- advisory ubuntu.com
- advisory ubuntu.com
- report ubuntu.com
- report cve.org
- report git.kernel.org
- report git.kernel.org
- report git.kernel.org
- report git.kernel.org
- report git.kernel.org