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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26865" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-04-17T10:27:27.522Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:27:53.524Z" 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-2024-26865" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26865.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26865" title: "rds: tcp: Fix use-after-free of net in reqsk_timer_handler()." summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrds: tcp: Fix use-after-free of net in reqsk_timer_handler().\n\nsyzkaller reported a warning of netns tracker [0] followed by KASAN\nsplat [1] and another ref tracker warning [1].\n\nsyzkaller could not find a repro, but in the log, the only suspicious\nsequence was as follows:\n\n 18:26:22 executing program 1:\n r0 = socket$inet6_mptcp(0xa, 0x1, 0x106)\n ...\n connect$inet6(r0, &(0x7f0000000080)={0xa, 0x4001, 0x0, @loopback}, 0x1c) (async)\n\nThe notable thing here is 0x4001 in connect(), which is RDS_TCP_PORT.\n\nSo, the scenario would be:\n\n 1. unshare(CLONE_NEWNET) creates a per netns tcp listener in\n rds_tcp_listen_init().\n 2. syz-executor connect()s to it and creates a reqsk.\n 3. syz-executor exit()s immediately.\n 4. netns is dismantled. [0]\n 5. reqsk timer is fired, and UAF happens while freeing reqsk. [1]\n 6. listener is freed after RCU grace period. [2]\n\nBasically, reqsk assumes that the listener guarantees netns safety\nuntil all reqsk timers are expired by holding the listener's refcount.\nHowever, this was not the case for kernel sockets.\n\nCommit 740ea3c4a0b2 (\"tcp: Clean up kernel listener's reqsk in\ninet_twsk_purge()\") fixed this issue only for per-netns ehash.\n\nLet's apply the same fix for the global ehash.\n\n[0]:\nref_tracker: net notrefcnt@0000000065449cc3 has 1/1 users at\n sk_alloc (./include/net/net_namespace.h:337 net/core/sock.c:2146)\n inet6_create (net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:192 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:119)\n __sock_create (net/socket.c:1572)\n rds_tcp_listen_init (net/rds/tcp_listen.c:279)\n rds_tcp_init_net (net/rds/tcp.c:577)\n ops_init (net/core/net_namespace.c:137)\n setup_net (net/core/net_namespace.c:340)\n copy_net_ns (net/core/net_namespace.c:497)\n create_new_namespaces (kernel/nsproxy.c:110)\n unshare_nsproxy_namespaces (kernel/nsproxy.c:228 (discriminator 4))\n ksys_unshare (kernel/fork.c:3429)\n __x64_sys_unshare (kernel/fork.c:3496)\n do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83)\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:129)\n...\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 27 at lib/ref_tracker.c:179 ref_tracker_dir_exit (lib/ref_tracker.c:179)\n\n[1]:\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in inet_csk_reqsk_queue_drop (./include/net/inet_hashtables.h:180 net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:952 net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:966)\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff88801b370400 by task swapper/0/0\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:107 (discriminator 1))\n print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:378 mm/kasan/report.c:488)\n kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:603)\n inet_csk_reqsk_queue_drop (./include/net/inet_hashtables.h:180 net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:952 net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:966)\n reqsk_timer_handler (net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:979 net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:1092)\n call_timer_fn (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27 ./include/linux/jump_label.h:207 ./include/trace/events/timer.h:127 kernel/time/timer.c:1701)\n __run_timers.part.0 (kernel/time/timer.c:1752 kernel/time/timer.c:2038)\n run_timer_softirq (kernel/time/timer.c:2053)\n __do_softirq (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27 ./include/linux/jump_label.h:207 ./include/trace/events/irq.h:142 kernel/softirq.c:554)\n irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:427 kernel/softirq.c:632 kernel/softirq.c:644)\n sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1076 (discriminator 14))\n \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n\nAllocated by task 258 on cpu 0 at 83.612050s:\n kasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:48)\n kasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:68)\n __kasan_slab_alloc (mm/kasan/common.c:343)\n kmem_cache_alloc (mm/slub.c:3813 mm/slub.c:3860 mm/slub.c:3867)\n copy_net_ns (./include/linux/slab.h:701 net/core/net_namespace.c:421 net/core/net_namespace.c:480)\n create_new_namespaces (kernel/nsproxy.c:110)\n unshare_nsproxy_name\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"467fa15356acfb7b2efa38839c3e76caa4e6e0ea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9905a157048f441f1412e7bd13372f4a971d75c6"},{"version":"467fa15356acfb7b2efa38839c3e76caa4e6e0ea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f901ee07853ce97e9f1104c7c898fbbe447f0279"},{"version":"467fa15356acfb7b2efa38839c3e76caa4e6e0ea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ceac040506a05a30b104b2aa2e9146810704500"},{"version":"467fa15356acfb7b2efa38839c3e76caa4e6e0ea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e9fd5cf8d7f487332560f7bb312fc7d416817f3"},{"version":"467fa15356acfb7b2efa38839c3e76caa4e6e0ea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a750d6a5b365265dbda33330a6188547ddb5c24"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.3"},{"version":"6.1.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.23","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9","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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