CVE-2024-44940

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

26/08/2024

Last modified:

01/04/2026

Description

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").

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.18 (including)	5.10.234 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.174 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.107 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.47 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.10.6 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2024-44940

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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