CVE-2024-56606 Information

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.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/132e615bb1d7cdec2d3cfbdec2efa630e923fd21 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/157f08db94123e2ba56877dd0ac88908b13a5dd0 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dc1e1db927056cb323296e2294a855cd003dfe7 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46f2a11cb82b657fd15bab1c47821b635e03838b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71b22837a5e55ac27d6a14b9cdf2326587405c4f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6cf750b737374454a4e03a5ed449a3eb0c96414 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd09880b16d33aa5a7420578e01cd79148fa9829