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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2024-26864 json

tcp: Fix refcnt handling in __inet_hash_connect().

published 2024-04-17 2 y ago modified 2026-08-05 3 mo ago also EUVD-2024-24126

cvss
7.8
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:

tcp: Fix refcnt handling in __inet_hash_connect().

syzbot reported a warning in sk_nulls_del_node_init_rcu().

The commit 66b60b0c8c4a ("dccp/tcp: Unhash sk from ehash for tb2 alloc failure after check_estalblished().") tried to fix an issue that an unconnected socket occupies an ehash entry when bhash2 allocation fails.

In such a case, we need to revert changes done by check_established(), which does not hold refcnt when inserting socket into ehash.

So, to revert the change, we need to __sk_nulls_add_node_rcu() instead of sk_nulls_add_node_rcu().

Otherwise, sock_put() will cause refcnt underflow and leak the socket.

[0]: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 23948 at include/net/sock.h:799 sk_nulls_del_node_init_rcu+0x166/0x1a0 include/net/sock.h:799 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 23948 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc6-syzkaller-00159-gc055fc00c07b #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/25/2024 RIP: 0010:sk_nulls_del_node_init_rcu+0x166/0x1a0 include/net/sock.h:799 Code: e8 7f 71 c6 f7 83 fb 02 7c 25 e8 35 6d c6 f7 4d 85 f6 0f 95 c0 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc e8 1b 6d c6 f7 90 <0f> 0b 90 eb b2 e8 10 6d c6 f7 4c 89 e7 be 04 00 00 00 e8 63 e7 d2 RSP: 0018:ffffc900032d7848 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffffffff89cd0035 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000040000 RDX: ffffc90004de1000 RSI: 000000000003ffff RDI: 0000000000040000 RBP: 1ffff1100439ac26 R08: ffffffff89ccffe3 R09: 1ffff1100439ac28 R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100439ac29 R12: ffff888021cd6140 R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88802a9bf5c0 R15: ffff888021cd6130 FS: 00007f3b823f16c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f3b823f0ff8 CR3: 000000004674a000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> __inet_hash_connect+0x140f/0x20b0 net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c:1139 dccp_v6_connect+0xcb9/0x1480 net/dccp/ipv6.c:956 __inet_stream_connect+0x262/0xf30 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:678 inet_stream_connect+0x65/0xa0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:749 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2048 [inline] __sys_connect+0x2df/0x310 net/socket.c:2065 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2075 [inline] __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2072 [inline] __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:2072 do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x240 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6f/0x77 RIP: 0033:0x7f3b8167dda9 Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 e1 20 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007f3b823f10c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f3b817abf80 RCX: 00007f3b8167dda9 RDX: 000000000000001c RSI: 0000000020000040 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007f3b823f1120 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: 000000000000000b R14: 00007f3b817abf80 R15: 00007ffd3beb57b8 </TASK>

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.1.83, 6.6.23, 6.7.11, 6.8.2, 6.9
  • linux linux_kernel 86d9b040421b
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.85-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.7.12-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26864

  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-35.35
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1009.9
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1008.9
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1004.7
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1006.6
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1008.8
  • linux-raspi Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1005.5
  • linux-riscv Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-35.35.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26864

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

  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-24.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-24.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-24.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-24.1.21.4
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_4 Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.2
  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-22.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-22.1
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_4 Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20164-1SUSE-SU-2025:20247-1SUSE-SU-2025:20163-1SUSE-SU-2025:20246-1SUSE-SU-2024:4387-1SUSE-SU-2024:4318-1

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-2024-26864 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: tcp: Fix refcnt handling in __inet_hash_connect().

  • 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
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • 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

0.61% 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 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADP 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Linux Linux
  • linux linux_kernel

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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