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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 27, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025

netfilter: ipset: Hold module reference while requesting a module

CVE-2024-56637

Description

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

netfilter: ipset: Hold module reference while requesting a module

User space may unload ip_set.ko while it is itself requesting a set type backend module, leading to a kernel crash. The race condition may be provoked by inserting an mdelay() right after the nfnl_unlock() call.

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