CVE-2024-53206 (GCVE-0-2024-53206)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-12-27 13:49
Modified
2026-08-05 11:44
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: Fix use-after-free of nreq in reqsk_timer_handler(). The cited commit replaced inet_csk_reqsk_queue_drop_and_put() with __inet_csk_reqsk_queue_drop() and reqsk_put() in reqsk_timer_handler(). Then, oreq should be passed to reqsk_put() instead of req; otherwise use-after-free of nreq could happen when reqsk is migrated but the retry attempt failed (e.g. due to timeout). Let's pass oreq to reqsk_put().
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 8459d61fbf24967839a70235165673148c7c7f17
Version: 5071beb59ee416e8ab456ac8647a4dabcda823b1
Version: 997ae8da14f1639ce6fb66a063dab54031cd61b3
Version: 51e34db64f4e43c7b055ccf881b7f3e0c31bb26d
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Version: e8c526f2bdf1845bedaf6a478816a3d06fa78b8f
Version: 106e457953315e476b3642ef24be25ed862aaba3
Version: c964bf65f80a14288d767023a1b300b30f5b9cd0
Version: 5.15.170   ≤
Version: 6.1.115   ≤
Version: 6.6.59   ≤
Version: 6.11.6   ≤
Version: 5.4.293   ≤
Version: 5.10.237   ≤
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