CVE-2024-38615

medium

Published 2024-09-24 · Modified 2024-11-03

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

Important: kernel security update

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

Mitigation details

Source: Red Hat Errata — Red Hat Inc. · View original ↗ · Open-Errata-API

Description kernel: cpufreq: exit() callback is optional CVSS v3: 4.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) Errata / fixed releases ProductPackageAdvisoryReleased Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.16.1.rt7.357.el8_10RHSA-2024:51022024-08-08T00:00:00Z Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8kernel-0:4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10RHSA-2024:51012024-08-08T00:00:00Z Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8…

Description

kernel: cpufreq: exit() callback is optional

CVSS v3: 4.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Errata / fixed releases

Product	Package	Advisory	Released
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.16.1.rt7.357.el8_10`	RHSA-2024:5102	2024-08-08T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`kernel-0:4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10`	RHSA-2024:5101	2024-08-08T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support	`kernel-0:4.18.0-477.74.1.el8_8`	RHSA-2024:6993	2024-09-24T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`kernel-0:5.14.0-427.37.1.el9_4`	RHSA-2024:6997	2024-09-24T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`kernel-0:5.14.0-427.37.1.el9_4`	RHSA-2024:6997	2024-09-24T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support	`kernel-0:5.14.0-284.84.1.el9_2`	RHSA-2024:6744	2024-09-18T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support	`kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-284.84.1.rt14.369.el9_2`	RHSA-2024:6745	2024-09-18T00:00:00Z

Package state

Product	Package	State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	`kernel`	Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	`kernel`	Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	`kernel-rt`	Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`kernel-rt`	Affected

Apply commands

bash fix

Apply RHSA-2024:5102 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

yum update -y kernel-rt
# or:
dnf upgrade -y kernel-rt

Affected

Vendor	Product	Version
redhat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`Affected`

OS impact

Linux kernel Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	`5.4.278`

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	`kernel-64k-devel-matched-5.14.0-427.37.1.el9_4.aarch64.rpm`
8	Fixed	`kernel-doc-4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`6.8.12-1`
sid	Fixed	`6.8.12-1`
forky	Fixed	`6.8.12-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.10.221-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`6.1.94-1`

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.