# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-26849"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-04-17T10:14:20.184Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:05:18.866Z"
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-2024-26849"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26849.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26849"
title: "netlink: add nla be16/32 types to minlen array"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetlink: add nla be16/32 types to minlen array\n\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in nla_validate_range_unsigned lib/nlattr.c:222 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in nla_validate_int_range lib/nlattr.c:336 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in validate_nla lib/nlattr.c:575 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __nla_validate_parse+0x2e20/0x45c0 lib/nlattr.c:631\n nla_validate_range_unsigned lib/nlattr.c:222 [inline]\n nla_validate_int_range lib/nlattr.c:336 [inline]\n validate_nla lib/nlattr.c:575 [inline]\n...\n\nThe message in question matches this policy:\n\n [NFTA_TARGET_REV]       = NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_BE32, 255),\n\nbut because NLA_BE32 size in minlen array is 0, the validation\ncode will read past the malformed (too small) attribute.\n\nNote: Other attributes, e.g. BITFIELD32, SINT, UINT.. are also missing:\nthose likely should be added too."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"24ea1c8abaae6541ad95912422a9af4fb858428d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"000a68159c0326b46c42ec712ab98793e7e625a7"},{"version":"cbfac0add2afe8960a09806012313765a2179423","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80b40f9cb87f3bf5877dfb852765cf92bc03ca77"},{"version":"ecaf75ffd5f5db320d8b1da0198eef5a5ce64a3f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0ac219c4c3ab253f3981f346903458d20bacab32"},{"version":"ecaf75ffd5f5db320d8b1da0198eef5a5ce64a3f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2ab028151841cd833cb53eb99427e0cc990112d"},{"version":"ecaf75ffd5f5db320d8b1da0198eef5a5ce64a3f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7a9d14c63b35f89563c5ecbadf918ad64979712d"},{"version":"ecaf75ffd5f5db320d8b1da0198eef5a5ce64a3f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a0d18853c280f6a0ee99f91619f2442a17a323a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.1.81","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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