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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26676" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-04-02T07:01:40.758Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:36:37.870Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26676" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26676.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26676" title: "af_unix: Call kfree_skb() for dead unix_(sk)-\u003eoob_skb in GC." summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naf_unix: Call kfree_skb() for dead unix_(sk)-\u003eoob_skb in GC.\n\nsyzbot reported a warning [0] in __unix_gc() with a repro, which\ncreates a socketpair and sends one socket's fd to itself using the\npeer.\n\n socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, [3, 4]) = 0\n sendmsg(4, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base=\"\\360\", iov_len=1}],\n msg_iovlen=1, msg_control=[{cmsg_len=20, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET,\n cmsg_type=SCM_RIGHTS, cmsg_data=[3]}],\n msg_controllen=24, msg_flags=0}, MSG_OOB|MSG_PROBE|MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_ZEROCOPY) = 1\n\nThis forms a self-cyclic reference that GC should finally untangle\nbut does not due to lack of MSG_OOB handling, resulting in memory\nleak.\n\nRecently, commit 11498715f266 (\"af_unix: Remove io_uring code for\nGC.\") removed io_uring's dead code in GC and revealed the problem.\n\nThe code was executed at the final stage of GC and unconditionally\nmoved all GC candidates from gc_candidates to gc_inflight_list.\nThat papered over the reported problem by always making the following\nWARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&gc_candidates)) false.\n\nThe problem has been there since commit 2aab4b969002 (\"af_unix: fix\nstruct pid leaks in OOB support\") added full scm support for MSG_OOB\nwhile fixing another bug.\n\nTo fix this problem, we must call kfree_skb() for unix_sk(sk)-\u003eoob_skb\nif the socket still exists in gc_candidates after purging collected skb.\n\nThen, we need to set NULL to oob_skb before calling kfree_skb() because\nit calls last fput() and triggers unix_release_sock(), where we call\nduplicate kfree_skb(u-\u003eoob_skb) if not NULL.\n\nNote that the leaked socket remained being linked to a global list, so\nkmemleak also could not detect it. We need to check /proc/net/protocol\nto notice the unfreed socket.\n\n[0]:\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2863 at net/unix/garbage.c:345 __unix_gc+0xc74/0xe80 net/unix/garbage.c:345\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 PID: 2863 Comm: kworker/u4:11 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc1-syzkaller-00583-g1701940b1a02 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/25/2024\nWorkqueue: events_unbound __unix_gc\nRIP: 0010:__unix_gc+0xc74/0xe80 net/unix/garbage.c:345\nCode: 8b 5c 24 50 e9 86 f8 ff ff e8 f8 e4 22 f8 31 d2 48 c7 c6 30 6a 69 89 4c 89 ef e8 97 ef ff ff e9 80 f9 ff ff e8 dd e4 22 f8 90 \u003c0f\u003e 0b 90 e9 7b fd ff ff 48 89 df e8 5c e7 7c f8 e9 d3 f8 ff ff e8\nRSP: 0018:ffffc9000b03fba0 EFLAGS: 00010293\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc9000b03fc10 RCX: ffffffff816c493e\nRDX: ffff88802c02d940 RSI: ffffffff896982f3 RDI: ffffc9000b03fb30\nRBP: ffffc9000b03fce0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffff52001607f66\nR10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: dffffc0000000000\nR13: ffffc9000b03fc10 R14: ffffc9000b03fc10 R15: 0000000000000001\nFS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00005559c8677a60 CR3: 000000000d57a000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n process_one_work+0x889/0x15e0 kernel/workqueue.c:2633\n process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2706 [inline]\n worker_thread+0x8b9/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2787\n kthread+0x2c6/0x3b0 kernel/kthread.c:388\n ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:242\n \u003c/TASK\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f3969427fb06a2c3cd6efd7faab63505cfa76e76","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4fe505c63aa3273135a57597fda761e9aecc7668"},{"version":"ac1968ac399205fda9ee3b18f7de7416cb3a5d0d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e0e09186d8821ad59806115d347ea32efa43ca4b"},{"version":"2aab4b96900272885bc157f8b236abf1cdc02e08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b74aa9ce13d02b7fd37c5325b99854f91b9b4276"},{"version":"2aab4b96900272885bc157f8b236abf1cdc02e08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82ae47c5c3a6b27fdc0f9e83c1499cb439c56140"},{"version":"2aab4b96900272885bc157f8b236abf1cdc02e08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1279f9d9dec2d7462823a18c29ad61359e0a007d"},{"version":"a59d6306263c38e5c0592ea4451ca26a0778c947","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.103","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.149"},{"version":"6.1.20","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.78"},{"version":"6.2.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"version":"5.15.149","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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