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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26961" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-01T05:19:16.361Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:39:38.082Z" 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-2024-26961" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26961.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26961" title: "mac802154: fix llsec key resources release in mac802154_llsec_key_del" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmac802154: fix llsec key resources release in mac802154_llsec_key_del\n\nmac802154_llsec_key_del() can free resources of a key directly without\nfollowing the RCU rules for waiting before the end of a grace period. This\nmay lead to use-after-free in case llsec_lookup_key() is traversing the\nlist of keys in parallel with a key deletion:\n\nrefcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.\nWARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 16000 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x162/0x2a0\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 4 PID: 16000 Comm: wpan-ping Not tainted 6.7.0 #19\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x162/0x2a0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n llsec_lookup_key.isra.0+0x890/0x9e0\n mac802154_llsec_encrypt+0x30c/0x9c0\n ieee802154_subif_start_xmit+0x24/0x1e0\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x13e/0x690\n sch_direct_xmit+0x2ae/0xbc0\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x11dd/0x3c20\n dgram_sendmsg+0x90b/0xd60\n __sys_sendto+0x466/0x4c0\n __x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0\n do_syscall_64+0x45/0xf0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76\n\nAlso, ieee802154_llsec_key_entry structures are not freed by\nmac802154_llsec_key_del():\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff8880613b6980 (size 64):\n comm \"iwpan\", pid 2176, jiffies 4294761134 (age 60.475s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 78 0d 8f 18 80 88 ff ff 22 01 00 00 00 00 ad de x.......\".......\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 cd ab 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace:\n [\u003cffffffff81dcfa62\u003e] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e2/0x2d0\n [\u003cffffffff81c43865\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x25/0xc0\n [\u003cffffffff88968b09\u003e] mac802154_llsec_key_add+0xac9/0xcf0\n [\u003cffffffff8896e41a\u003e] ieee802154_add_llsec_key+0x5a/0x80\n [\u003cffffffff8892adc6\u003e] nl802154_add_llsec_key+0x426/0x5b0\n [\u003cffffffff86ff293e\u003e] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x1fe/0x2f0\n [\u003cffffffff86ff46d1\u003e] genl_rcv_msg+0x531/0x7d0\n [\u003cffffffff86fee7a9\u003e] netlink_rcv_skb+0x169/0x440\n [\u003cffffffff86ff1d88\u003e] genl_rcv+0x28/0x40\n [\u003cffffffff86fec15c\u003e] netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x820\n [\u003cffffffff86fecd8b\u003e] netlink_sendmsg+0x93b/0xe60\n [\u003cffffffff86b91b35\u003e] ____sys_sendmsg+0xac5/0xca0\n [\u003cffffffff86b9c3dd\u003e] ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1c0\n [\u003cffffffff86b9c65a\u003e] __sys_sendmsg+0xfa/0x1d0\n [\u003cffffffff88eadbf5\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x45/0xf0\n [\u003cffffffff890000ea\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76\n\nHandle the proper resource release in the RCU callback function\nmac802154_llsec_key_del_rcu().\n\nNote that if llsec_lookup_key() finds a key, it gets a refcount via\nllsec_key_get() and locally copies key id from key_entry (which is a\nlist element). So it's safe to call llsec_key_put() and free the list\nentry after the RCU grace period elapses.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org)." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5d637d5aabd85132bd85779677d8acb708e0ed90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"068ab2759bc0b4daf0b964de61b2731449c86531"},{"version":"5d637d5aabd85132bd85779677d8acb708e0ed90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d3d858650933d44ac12c1f31337e7110c2071821"},{"version":"5d637d5aabd85132bd85779677d8acb708e0ed90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dcd51ab42b7a0431575689c5f74b8b6efd45fc2f"},{"version":"5d637d5aabd85132bd85779677d8acb708e0ed90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"20d3e1c8a1847497269f04d874b2a5818ec29e2d"},{"version":"5d637d5aabd85132bd85779677d8acb708e0ed90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"640297c3e897bd7e1481466a6a5cb9560f1edb88"},{"version":"5d637d5aabd85132bd85779677d8acb708e0ed90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"49c8951680d7b76fceaee89dcfbab1363fb24fd1"},{"version":"5d637d5aabd85132bd85779677d8acb708e0ed90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8a1e58345cf40b7b272e08ac7b32328b2543e40"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.16"},{"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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