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Tracker / CVE-2024-38612

CVE-2024-38612

High 7.0

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: sr: fix invalid unregister error path The error path of seg6_init() is wrong in case CONFIG_IPV6_SEG6_LWTUNNEL is not defined. In that case if seg6_hmac_init() fails, the genl_unregister_family() isn't called. This issue exist since commit 46738b1317e1 ("ipv6: sr: add option to control lwtunnel support"), and commit 5559cea2d5aa ("ipv6: sr: fix possible use-after-free and null-ptr-deref") replaced unregister_pernet_subsys() with genl_unregister_family() in this error path.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.19.316
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.278
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.161
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.93
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.219
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.33
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.8.12
linux linux_kernel · 6.9 → 6.9.3

Analysis

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