CVE-2024-36903 (GCVE-0-2024-36903)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-30 15:29 – Updated: 2026-01-19 12:17
VLAI?
Title
ipv6: Fix potential uninit-value access in __ip6_make_skb()
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 605b056d63302ae84eb136e88d4df49124bd5e0d , < 59d74c843ebf46264c7903726cf6f2673a93b07a (git)
Affected: d65ff2fe877c471aa6e79efa7bd8ff66e147c317 , < 40e5444a3ac315b60e94d82226b73cd82145d09e (git)
Affected: 2c9cefc142c1dc2759e19a92d3b2b3715e985beb , < a05c1ede50e9656f0752e523c7b54f3a3489e9a8 (git)
Affected: ea30388baebcce37fd594d425a65037ca35e59e8 , < 68c8ba16ab712eb709c6bab80ff151079d11d97a (git)
Affected: ea30388baebcce37fd594d425a65037ca35e59e8 , < 2367bf254f3a27ecc6e229afd7a8b0a1395f7be3 (git)
Affected: ea30388baebcce37fd594d425a65037ca35e59e8 , < 4e13d3a9c25b7080f8a619f961e943fe08c2672c (git)
Affected: 165370522cc48127da564a08584a7391e6341908 (git)
Affected: f394f690a30a5ec0413c62777a058eaf3d6e10d5 (git)
Affected: 0cf600ca1bdf1d52df977516ee6cee0cadb1f6b1 (git)
Affected: 02ed5700f40445af02d1c97db25ffc2d04971d9f (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.248 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.198 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.140 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.31 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8.10 , ≤ 6.8.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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