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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 17, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

ipv6: fix potential "struct net" leak in inet6_rtm_getaddr()

CVE-2024-27417

Description

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

ipv6: fix potential "struct net" leak in inet6_rtm_getaddr()

It seems that if userspace provides a correct IFA_TARGET_NETNSID value but no IFA_ADDRESS and IFA_LOCAL attributes, inet6_rtm_getaddr() returns -EINVAL with an elevated "struct net" refcount.

Affected products

156

Patches

0

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