vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-27417: kernel: ipv6: fix potential "struct net" leak in inet6_rtm_getaddr() (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/17/2024
Added
07/25/2024
Modified
03/10/2025

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.

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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