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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26923" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-04-24T21:49:22.001Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:39:24.160Z" 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-2024-26923" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26923.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26923" title: "af_unix: Fix garbage collector racing against connect()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naf_unix: Fix garbage collector racing against connect()\n\nGarbage collector does not take into account the risk of embryo getting\nenqueued during the garbage collection. If such embryo has a peer that\ncarries SCM_RIGHTS, two consecutive passes of scan_children() may see a\ndifferent set of children. Leading to an incorrectly elevated inflight\ncount, and then a dangling pointer within the gc_inflight_list.\n\nsockets are AF_UNIX/SOCK_STREAM\nS is an unconnected socket\nL is a listening in-flight socket bound to addr, not in fdtable\nV's fd will be passed via sendmsg(), gets inflight count bumped\n\nconnect(S, addr)\tsendmsg(S, [V]); close(V)\t__unix_gc()\n----------------\t-------------------------\t-----------\n\nNS = unix_create1()\nskb1 = sock_wmalloc(NS)\nL = unix_find_other(addr)\nunix_state_lock(L)\nunix_peer(S) = NS\n\t\t\t// V count=1 inflight=0\n\n \t\t\tNS = unix_peer(S)\n \t\t\tskb2 = sock_alloc()\n\t\t\tskb_queue_tail(NS, skb2[V])\n\n\t\t\t// V became in-flight\n\t\t\t// V count=2 inflight=1\n\n\t\t\tclose(V)\n\n\t\t\t// V count=1 inflight=1\n\t\t\t// GC candidate condition met\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tfor u in gc_inflight_list:\n\t\t\t\t\t\t if (total_refs == inflight_refs)\n\t\t\t\t\t\t add u to gc_candidates\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t// gc_candidates={L, V}\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tfor u in gc_candidates:\n\t\t\t\t\t\t scan_children(u, dec_inflight)\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t// embryo (skb1) was not\n\t\t\t\t\t\t// reachable from L yet, so V's\n\t\t\t\t\t\t// inflight remains unchanged\n__skb_queue_tail(L, skb1)\nunix_state_unlock(L)\n\t\t\t\t\t\tfor u in gc_candidates:\n\t\t\t\t\t\t if (u.inflight)\n\t\t\t\t\t\t scan_children(u, inc_inflight_move_tail)\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t// V count=1 inflight=2 (!)\n\nIf there is a GC-candidate listening socket, lock/unlock its state. This\nmakes GC wait until the end of any ongoing connect() to that socket. After\nflipping the lock, a possibly SCM-laden embryo is already enqueued. And if\nthere is another embryo coming, it can not possibly carry SCM_RIGHTS. At\nthis point, unix_inflight() can not happen because unix_gc_lock is already\ntaken. Inflight graph remains unaffected." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1fd05ba5a2f2aa8e7b9b52ef55df850e2e7d54c9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a36ae0ec2353015f0f6762e59f4c2dbc0c906423"},{"version":"1fd05ba5a2f2aa8e7b9b52ef55df850e2e7d54c9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"343c5372d5e17b306db5f8f3c895539b06e3177f"},{"version":"1fd05ba5a2f2aa8e7b9b52ef55df850e2e7d54c9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e2a03787f4f0abc0072350654ab0ef3324d9db3"},{"version":"1fd05ba5a2f2aa8e7b9b52ef55df850e2e7d54c9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e76c2678228f6aec74b305ae30c9374cc2f28a51"},{"version":"1fd05ba5a2f2aa8e7b9b52ef55df850e2e7d54c9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b75722be422c276b699200de90527d01c602ea7c"},{"version":"1fd05ba5a2f2aa8e7b9b52ef55df850e2e7d54c9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"507cc232ffe53a352847893f8177d276c3b532a9"},{"version":"1fd05ba5a2f2aa8e7b9b52ef55df850e2e7d54c9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dbdf7bec5c920200077d693193f989cb1513f009"},{"version":"1fd05ba5a2f2aa8e7b9b52ef55df850e2e7d54c9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47d8ac011fe1c9251070e1bd64cb10b48193ec51"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.23","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.23"},{"version":"4.19.314","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.275","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.87","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.28","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.8.7","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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