CVE-2024-38612

critical
Published 2024-11-12 · Modified 2026-05-12
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-38612

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-38612.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e77a3ec7ada84543e75722a1283785a6544de925

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c04d6a914e890ccea4a9d11233009a2ee7978bf4

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85a70ff1e572160f1eeb096ed48d09a1c9d4d89a

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/646cd236c55e2cb5f146fc41bbe4034c4af5b2a4

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3398a40dccb88d3a7eef378247a023a78472db66

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a63730fb315bb1bab97edd69ff58ad45e04bb01

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/160e9d2752181fcf18c662e74022d77d3164cd45

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10610575a3ac2a702bf5c57aa931beaf847949c7

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00e6335329f23ac6cf3105931691674e28bc598c

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9315

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel9fixed
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed6.1.94-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.221-1
debian debianforkyfixed6.8.12-1
debian debiansidfixed6.8.12-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.8.12-1
linux linux-kernelaffected4.19.316

References

CWEs

CWE-416 CWE-476

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.