VYPR
Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2024· Updated May 12, 2026

CVE-2024-26950

CVE-2024-26950

Description

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

wireguard: netlink: access device through ctx instead of peer

The previous commit fixed a bug that led to a NULL peer->device being dereferenced. It's actually easier and faster performance-wise to instead get the device from ctx->wg. This semantically makes more sense too, since ctx->wg->peer_allowedips.seq is compared with ctx->allowedips_seq, basing them both in ctx. This also acts as a defence in depth provision against freed peers.

Affected products

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  • Linux/Linuxv5
    Range: 5.6

Patches

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