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high 7.5

CVE-2024-44940 json

fou: remove warn in gue_gro_receive on unsupported protocol

published 2024-08-26 2 y ago modified 2026-08-05 3 mo ago also EUVD-2024-41152

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 55%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

fou: remove warn in gue_gro_receive on unsupported protocol

Drop the WARN_ON_ONCE inn gue_gro_receive if the encapsulated type is not known or does not have a GRO handler.

Such a packet is easily constructed. Syzbot generates them and sets off this warning.

Remove the warning as it is expected and not actionable.

The warning was previously reduced from WARN_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE in commit 270136613bf7 ("fou: Do WARN_ON_ONCE in gue_gro_receive for bad proto callbacks").

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.10.234, 5.15.174, 6.1.107, 6.6.47, 6.10.6, 6.11
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.112-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.10.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44940

  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-202.222
  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-127.137
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-50.51
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1136.146
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1073.79
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1020.22
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1140.149
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1072.80

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-44940

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 CBL-Mariner 2.0 5.15.176.3-1

azure linux advisories AZL-49140

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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-2024-44940 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: fou: remove warn in gue_gro_receive on unsupported protocol

  • 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

0.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% 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 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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