CVE-2024-27417

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

17/05/2024

Last modified:

23/12/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: fix potential "struct net" leak in inet6_rtm_getaddr() It seems that if userspace provides a correct IFA_TARGET_NETNSID value but no IFA_ADDRESS and IFA_LOCAL attributes, inet6_rtm_getaddr() returns -EINVAL with an elevated "struct net" refcount.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.271 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.212 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.151 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.81 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.21 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.7.9 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc4::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc5::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc6::::::
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::*

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CVE-2024-27417

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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