CVE-2024-27417 (GCVE-0-2024-27417)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-17 11:51 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:10
VLAI
Title
ipv6: fix potential "struct net" leak in inet6_rtm_getaddr()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: fix potential "struct net" leak in inet6_rtm_getaddr() It seems that if userspace provides a correct IFA_TARGET_NETNSID value but no IFA_ADDRESS and IFA_LOCAL attributes, inet6_rtm_getaddr() returns -EINVAL with an elevated "struct net" refcount.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-24 14:19 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 6ecf4c37eb3e89b0832c9616089a5cdca3747da7 , < 9d4ffb5b9d879a75e4f7460e8b10e756b4dfb132 (git)
Affected: 6ecf4c37eb3e89b0832c9616089a5cdca3747da7 , < 810fa7d5e5202fcfb22720304b755f1bdfd4c174 (git)
Affected: 6ecf4c37eb3e89b0832c9616089a5cdca3747da7 , < 8a54834c03c30e549c33d5da0975f3e1454ec906 (git)
Affected: 6ecf4c37eb3e89b0832c9616089a5cdca3747da7 , < 1b0998fdd85776775d975d0024bca227597e836a (git)
Affected: 6ecf4c37eb3e89b0832c9616089a5cdca3747da7 , < 44112bc5c74e64f28f5a9127dc34066c7a09bd0f (git)
Affected: 6ecf4c37eb3e89b0832c9616089a5cdca3747da7 , < 33a1b6bfef6def2068c8703403759024ce17053e (git)
Affected: 6ecf4c37eb3e89b0832c9616089a5cdca3747da7 , < 10bfd453da64a057bcfd1a49fb6b271c48653cdb (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.20
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.20 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.271 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.212 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.151 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.81 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.21 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.7.9 , ≤ 6.7.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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