vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2024-44985: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 4, 2024
Added
Oct 7, 2024
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

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

ipv6: prevent possible UAF in ip6_xmit()

If skb_expand_head() returns NULL, skb has been freed
and the associated dst/idev could also have been freed.

We must use rcu_read_lock() to prevent a possible UAF.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-linuxdebian-upgrade-linux-6-1
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