# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-27417"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-17T11:51:07.803Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:10:37.228Z"
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-2024-27417"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-27417.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-27417"
title: "ipv6: fix potential \"struct net\" leak in inet6_rtm_getaddr()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: fix potential \"struct net\" leak in inet6_rtm_getaddr()\n\nIt seems that if userspace provides a correct IFA_TARGET_NETNSID value\nbut no IFA_ADDRESS and IFA_LOCAL attributes, inet6_rtm_getaddr()\nreturns -EINVAL with an elevated \"struct net\" refcount."
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