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CVE-2024-56606

af_packet: avoid erroring out after sock_init_data() in packet_create() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: af_packet: avoid erroring out after sock_init_data() in packet_create() After sock_init_data() the allocated sk object is attached to the provided sock object. On error, packet_create() frees the sk object leaving the dangling pointer in the sock object on return. Some other code may try to use this pointer and cause use-after-free.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected b013840810c221f2b0cf641d01531526052dc1fb before 71b22837a5e55ac27d6a14b9cdf2326587405c4f; affected b013840810c221f2b0cf641d01531526052dc1fb before 1dc1e1db927056cb323296e2294a855cd003dfe7; affected b013840810c221f2b0cf641d01531526052dc1fb before 132e615bb1d7cdec2d3cfbdec2efa630e923fd21; affected b013840810c221f2b0cf641d01531526052dc1fb before a6cf750b737374454a4e03a5ed449a3eb0c96414; affected b013840810c221f2b0cf641d01531526052dc1fb before 157f08db94123e2ba56877dd0ac88908b13a5dd0; affected b013840810c221f2b0cf641d01531526052dc1fb before fd09880b16d33aa5a7420578e01cd79148fa9829; affected b013840810c221f2b0cf641d01531526052dc1fb before 46f2a11cb82b657fd15bab1c47821b635e03838b
Linux / Linuxaffected 3.14; unaffected 0 before 3.14; 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 *

CWE

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