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CVE-2024-56601

HIGH · 7.8 CVSS Gepubliceerd: CWE-416

Beschrijving

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: inet: do not leave a dangling sk pointer in inet_create()

sock_init_data() attaches the allocated sk object to the provided sock
object. If inet_create() fails later, the sk object is freed, but the
sock object retains the dangling pointer, which may create use-after-free
later.

Clear the sk pointer in the sock object on error.

Vendors

Linux

Affected products

Linux Kernel

References