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CVE-2024-56601

net: inet: do not leave a dangling sk pointer in inet_create() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: inet: do not leave a dangling sk pointer in inet_create() sock_init_data() attaches the allocated sk object to the provided sock object. If inet_create() fails later, the sk object is freed, but the sock object retains the dangling pointer, which may create use-after-free later. Clear the sk pointer in the sock object on error.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before f8a3f255f7509a209292871715cda03779640c8d; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 2bc34d8c8898ae9fddf4612501aabb22d76c2b2c; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 3e8258070b0f2aba66b3ef18883de229674fb288; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before b4513cfd3a10c03c660d5d3d26c2e322efbfdd9b; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 25447c6aaa7235f155292b0c58a067347e8ae891; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 691d6d816f93b2a1008c14178399061466e674ef; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 9365fa510c6f82e3aa550a09d0c5c6b44dbc78ff
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.12; unaffected 0 before 2.6.12; unaffected 5.4.287 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.231 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.174 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.120 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.66 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.5 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.13 through *

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