Security Advisory

CVE-2024-36903

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-05-30 15:29:04
Last updated 2026-05-23 15:47:20
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: Fix potential uninit-value access in __ip6_make_skb() As it was done in commit fc1092f51567 ("ipv4: Fix uninit-value access in __ip_make_skb()") for IPv4, check FLOWI_FLAG_KNOWN_NH on fl6->flowi6_flags instead of testing HDRINCL on the socket to avoid a race condition which causes uninit-value access.