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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-50024

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 10/21/2024 4:15:15 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

net: Fix an unsafe loop on the list

The kernel may crash when deleting a genetlink family if there are still
listeners for that family:

Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
  ...
  NIP [c000000000c080bc] netlink_update_socket_mc+0x3c/0xc0
  LR [c000000000c0f764] __netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x74/0xc0
  Call Trace:
__netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x74/0xc0
genl_unregister_family+0xd4/0x2d0

Change the unsafe loop on the list to a safe one, because inside the
loop there is an element removal from this list.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cdec792b2450105b1314c5123a9a0452cb2c2f0 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dae9f1187189bc09ff6d25ca97ead711f7e26f9 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3be342e0332a7c83eb26fbb22bf156fdca467a5d [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49f9b726bf2bf3dd2caf0d27cadf4bc1ccf7a7dd [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f03a7f601f33cda1f710611625235dc86fd8a9e [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68ad5da6ca630a276f0a5c924179e57724d00013 [No types assigned]