vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-56600: kernel: net: inet6: do not leave a dangling sk pointer in inet6_create() (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:P/A:C)
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 15, 2025

Description

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

net: inet6: do not leave a dangling sk pointer in inet6_create()

sock_init_data() attaches the allocated sk pointer to the provided sock
object. If inet6_create() fails later, the sk object is released, but the
sock object retains the dangling sk pointer, which may cause use-after-free
later.

Clear the sock sk pointer on error.

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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