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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26951" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-01T05:18:34.520Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:39:32.705Z" 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-2024-26951" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26951.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26951" title: "wireguard: netlink: check for dangling peer via is_dead instead of empty list" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwireguard: netlink: check for dangling peer via is_dead instead of empty list\n\nIf all peers are removed via wg_peer_remove_all(), rather than setting\npeer_list to empty, the peer is added to a temporary list with a head on\nthe stack of wg_peer_remove_all(). If a netlink dump is resumed and the\ncursored peer is one that has been removed via wg_peer_remove_all(), it\nwill iterate from that peer and then attempt to dump freed peers.\n\nFix this by instead checking peer-\u003eis_dead, which was explictly created\nfor this purpose. Also move up the device_update_lock lockdep assertion,\nsince reading is_dead relies on that.\n\nIt can be reproduced by a small script like:\n\n echo \"Setting config...\"\n ip link add dev wg0 type wireguard\n wg setconf wg0 /big-config\n (\n while true; do\n echo \"Showing config...\"\n wg showconf wg0 \u003e /dev/null\n done\n ) &\n sleep 4\n wg setconf wg0 \u003c(printf \"[Peer]\\nPublicKey=$(wg genkey)\\n\")\n\nResulting in:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0x182a/0x1b20\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff88811956ec70 by task wg/59\n CPU: 2 PID: 59 Comm: wg Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2-debug+ #5\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x47/0x70\n print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x380\n print_report+0xab/0x250\n kasan_report+0xba/0xf0\n __lock_acquire+0x182a/0x1b20\n lock_acquire+0x191/0x4b0\n down_read+0x80/0x440\n get_peer+0x140/0xcb0\n wg_get_device_dump+0x471/0x1130" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f52be46e3e6ecefc2539119784324f0cbc09620a"},{"version":"e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"710a177f347282eea162aec8712beb1f42d5ad87"},{"version":"e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b7cea3a9af0853fdbb1b16633a458f991dde6aac"},{"version":"e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13d107794304306164481d31ce33f8fdb25a9c04"},{"version":"e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7bedfe4cfa38771840a355970e4437cd52d4046b"},{"version":"e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"302b2dfc013baca3dea7ceda383930d9297d231d"},{"version":"e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"55b6c738673871c9b0edae05d0c97995c1ff08c4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"},{"version":"5.10.215","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.154","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.84","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8.3","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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