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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-35960" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-20T09:41:51.900Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:41:43.217Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:11.582Z" 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-2024-35960" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-35960.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-35960" title: "net/mlx5: Properly link new fs rules into the tree" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5: Properly link new fs rules into the tree\n\nPreviously, add_rule_fg would only add newly created rules from the\nhandle into the tree when they had a refcount of 1. On the other hand,\ncreate_flow_handle tries hard to find and reference already existing\nidentical rules instead of creating new ones.\n\nThese two behaviors can result in a situation where create_flow_handle\n1) creates a new rule and references it, then\n2) in a subsequent step during the same handle creation references it\n again,\nresulting in a rule with a refcount of 2 that is not linked into the\ntree, will have a NULL parent and root and will result in a crash when\nthe flow group is deleted because del_sw_hw_rule, invoked on rule\ndeletion, assumes node-\u003eparent is != NULL.\n\nThis happened in the wild, due to another bug related to incorrect\nhandling of duplicate pkt_reformat ids, which lead to the code in\ncreate_flow_handle incorrectly referencing a just-added rule in the same\nflow handle, resulting in the problem described above. Full details are\nat [1].\n\nThis patch changes add_rule_fg to add new rules without parents into\nthe tree, properly initializing them and avoiding the crash. This makes\nit more consistent with how rules are added to an FTE in\ncreate_flow_handle." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"74491de937125d0c98c9b9c9208b4105717a3caa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de0139719cdda82806a47580ca0df06fc85e0bd2"},{"version":"74491de937125d0c98c9b9c9208b4105717a3caa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1263b0b26077b1183c3c45a0a2479573a351d423"},{"version":"74491de937125d0c98c9b9c9208b4105717a3caa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d90ca9145f6b97b38d0c2b6b30f6ca6af9c1801"},{"version":"74491de937125d0c98c9b9c9208b4105717a3caa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7aaee12b804c5e0374e7b132b6ec2158ff33dd64"},{"version":"74491de937125d0c98c9b9c9208b4105717a3caa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e8dc5cffc844dacfa79f056dea88002312f253f"},{"version":"74491de937125d0c98c9b9c9208b4105717a3caa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5cf5337ef701830f173b4eec00a4f984adeb57a0"},{"version":"74491de937125d0c98c9b9c9208b4105717a3caa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"adf67a03af39095f05d82050f15813d6f700159d"},{"version":"74491de937125d0c98c9b9c9208b4105717a3caa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c6782ad4911cbee874e85630226ed389ff2e453"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.19.313","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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