AZL-55242
See a problem?- Import Source
- https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-55242.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-55242
- Upstream
- Published
- 2024-12-27T15:15:20Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-01T05:18:33.667416Z
- Severity
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- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- CVE-2024-56606 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.176.3-1
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
afpacket: avoid erroring out after sockinitdata() in packetcreate()
After sockinitdata() 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.
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