Security Advisory

CVE-2024-56606

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-12-27 14:51:11
Last updated 2026-05-11 20:55:42
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: af_packet: avoid erroring out after sock_init_data() in packet_create() After sock_init_data() the allocated sk object is attached to the provided sock object. On error, packet_create() frees the sk object leaving the dangling pointer in the sock object on return. Some other code may try to use this pointer and cause use-after-free.