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NTAP-20250627-0005 — CVE-2024-49997 Linux Kernel Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2025-06-27 · Updated 2026-03-17 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20250627-0005 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 7.5

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2024-49997 — HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2024-49997 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: lantiq_etop: fix memory disclosure When applying padding, the buffer is not zeroed, which results in memory disclosure. The mentioned data is observed on the wire. This patch uses skb_put_padto() to pad Ethernet frames properly. The mentioned function zeroes the expanded buffer. In case the packet cannot be padded it is silently dropped. Statistics are also not incremented. This driver does not support statistics in the old 32-bit format or the new 64-bit format. These will be added in the future. In its current form, the patch should be easily backported to stable versions. Ethernet MACs on Amazon-SE and Danube cannot do padding of the packets in hardware, so software padding must be applied.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information.

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H300S/H500S/H700S/H410S
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H410C
NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10

Official fixes

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10 — vendor fix ↗

References

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024102138-CVE-2024-49997-0d01@gregkh/T/#u ↗

What to do

Check the affected products listed above against the official advisory's affected-versions table — that is where the exact ONTAP 9 release, ONTAP tool, or management product versions are named.
If affected and a fixed release exists, plan the upgrade — see the ONTAP upgrade runbook.
If exploitation is listed as "active", treat remediation as urgent and review exposure (management LIFs, ONTAP S3, SnapMirror endpoints).
Harden in parallel: security hardening baseline and ransomware protection on ONTAP.