CVE-2024-49932
Linux Kernel ≤ 6.11.3
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HSummary
CVE-2024-49932 is a high-severity Reachable Assertion (CWE-617) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 7.0 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked at the 10th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SA-8 (Security and Privacy Engineering Principles) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-43616
Vulnerability Data
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: don't readahead the relocation inode on RST On relocation we're doing readahead on the relocation inode, but if the filesystem is backed by a RAID stripe tree we can…
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get ENOENT (e.g. due to preallocated extents not being mapped in the RST) from the lookup. But readahead doesn't handle the error and submits invalid reads to the device, causing an assertion in the scatter-gather list code: BTRFS info (device nvme1n1): balance: start -d -m -s BTRFS info (device nvme1n1): relocating block group 6480920576 flags data|raid0 BTRFS error (device nvme1n1): cannot find raid-stripe for logical [6481928192, 6481969152] devid 2, profile raid0 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:115! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 0 PID: 1012 Comm: btrfs Not tainted 6.10.0-rc7+ #567 RIP: 0010:__blk_rq_map_sg+0x339/0x4a0 RSP: 0018:ffffc90001a43820 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffea00045d4802 RDX: 0000000117520000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8881027d1000 RBP: 0000000000003000 R08: ffffea00045d4902 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000001000 R12: ffff8881003d10b8 R13: ffffc90001a438f0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000003000 FS: 00007fcc048a6900(0000) GS:ffff88813bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000000002cd11000 CR3: 00000001109ea001 CR4: 0000000000370eb0 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die_body.cold+0x14/0x25 ? die+0x2e/0x50 ? do_trap+0xca/0x110 ? do_error_trap+0x65/0x80 ? __blk_rq_map_sg+0x339/0x4a0 ? exc_invalid_op+0x50/0x70 ? __blk_rq_map_sg+0x339/0x4a0 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 ? __blk_rq_map_sg+0x339/0x4a0 nvme_prep_rq.part.0+0x9d/0x770 nvme_queue_rq+0x7d/0x1e0 __blk_mq_issue_directly+0x2a/0x90 ? blk_mq_get_budget_and_tag+0x61/0x90 blk_mq_try_issue_list_directly+0x56/0xf0 blk_mq_flush_plug_list.part.0+0x52b/0x5d0 __blk_flush_plug+0xc6/0x110 blk_finish_plug+0x28/0x40 read_pages+0x160/0x1c0 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x109/0x180 relocate_file_extent_cluster+0x611/0x6a0 ? btrfs_search_slot+0xba4/0xd20 ? balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags+0x26/0xb00 relocate_data_extent.constprop.0+0x134/0x160 relocate_block_group+0x3f2/0x500 btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x250/0x430 btrfs_relocate_chunk+0x3f/0x130 btrfs_balance+0x71b/0xef0 ? kmalloc_trace_noprof+0x13b/0x280 btrfs_ioctl+0x2c2e/0x3030 ? kvfree_call_rcu+0x1e6/0x340 ? list_lru_add_obj+0x66/0x80 ? mntput_no_expire+0x3a/0x220 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x96/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x54/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7fcc04514f9b Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7fcc04514f71. RSP: 002b:00007ffeba923370 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007fcc04514f9b RDX: 00007ffeba923460 RSI: 00000000c4009420 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000013 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 00007fcc043fbba8 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffeba924fc5 R13: 00007ffeba923460 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 00000000004d4bb0 </TASK> Modules linked in: ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- RIP: 0010:__blk_rq_map_sg+0x339/0x4a0 RSP: 0018:ffffc90001a43820 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffea00045d4802 RDX: 0000000117520000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8881027d1000 RBP: 0000000000003000 R08: ffffea00045d4902 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000001000 R12: ffff8881003d10b8 R13: ffffc90001a438f0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000003000 FS: 00007fcc048a6900(0000) GS:ffff88813bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fcc04514f71 CR3: 00000001109ea001 CR4: 0000000000370eb0 Kernel p ---truncated---
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation finds reachable assertions during development.
Security engineering principles discourage use of assertions for handling untrusted input.
Validating untrusted inputs structurally prevents attacker data from reaching and triggering assertions.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure SDLC practices directly prevent unsafe assertions from being coded in reachable paths.
Runtime monitoring of software can detect assertion-triggered crashes as adverse events.
Vulnerability identification processes can discover and record reachable-assertion flaws before deployment.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Security testing in development can detect reachable assertions before release, reducing the likelihood of exploitation.
Secure development lifecycle mandates defensive coding and input validation that prevent reachable assertions from being triggered by untrusted data.
Application security requirements can specify that assertions must not be reachable from attacker-controlled inputs.
Secure architecture principles discourage the use of assertions for runtime error handling that an attacker could exploit.
Secure coding standards explicitly ban the use of assert() or equivalent statements that can be triggered by external input.