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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2024-26834 json

netfilter: nft_flow_offload: release dst in case direct xmit path is used

published 2024-04-17 2 y ago modified 2026-08-05 3 mo ago also EUVD-2024-24096

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 49%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

netfilter: nft_flow_offload: release dst in case direct xmit path is used

Direct xmit does not use it since it calls dev_queue_xmit() to send packets, hence it calls dst_release().

kmemleak reports:

unreferenced object 0xffff88814f440900 (size 184): comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294951896 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 60 5b 04 81 88 ff ff 00 e6 e8 82 ff ff ff ff .`[............. 21 0b 50 82 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 !.P............. backtrace (crc cb2bf5d6): [<000000003ee17107>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x286/0x340 [<0000000021a5de2c>] dst_alloc+0x43/0xb0 [<00000000f0671159>] rt_dst_alloc+0x2e/0x190 [<00000000fe5092c9>] __mkroute_output+0x244/0x980 [<000000005fb96fb0>] ip_route_output_flow+0xc0/0x160 [<0000000045367433>] nf_ip_route+0xf/0x30 [<0000000085da1d8e>] nf_route+0x2d/0x60 [<00000000d1ecd1cb>] nft_flow_route+0x171/0x6a0 [nft_flow_offload] [<00000000d9b2fb60>] nft_flow_offload_eval+0x4e8/0x700 [nft_flow_offload] [<000000009f447dbb>] expr_call_ops_eval+0x53/0x330 [nf_tables] [<00000000072e1be6>] nft_do_chain+0x17c/0x840 [nf_tables] [<00000000d0551029>] nft_do_chain_inet+0xa1/0x210 [nf_tables] [<0000000097c9d5c6>] nf_hook_slow+0x5b/0x160 [<0000000005eccab1>] ip_forward+0x8b6/0x9b0 [<00000000553a269b>] ip_rcv+0x221/0x230 [<00000000412872e5>] __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0xfe/0x110

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.6.19, 6.7.7, 6.8
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.82-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.7.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26834

  • linux-raspi-realtime Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-2002.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26834

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-26834 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: netfilter: nft_flow_offload: release dst in case direct xmit path is used

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

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References

Sources

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