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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-41010" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-07-17T06:10:12.051Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:34:36.731Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z" 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-2024-41010" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-41010.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-41010" title: "bpf: Fix too early release of tcx_entry" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix too early release of tcx_entry\n\nPedro Pinto and later independently also Hyunwoo Kim and Wongi Lee reported\nan issue that the tcx_entry can be released too early leading to a use\nafter free (UAF) when an active old-style ingress or clsact qdisc with a\nshared tc block is later replaced by another ingress or clsact instance.\n\nEssentially, the sequence to trigger the UAF (one example) can be as follows:\n\n 1. A network namespace is created\n 2. An ingress qdisc is created. This allocates a tcx_entry, and\n &tcx_entry-\u003eminiq is stored in the qdisc's miniqp-\u003ep_miniq. At the\n same time, a tcf block with index 1 is created.\n 3. chain0 is attached to the tcf block. chain0 must be connected to\n the block linked to the ingress qdisc to later reach the function\n tcf_chain0_head_change_cb_del() which triggers the UAF.\n 4. Create and graft a clsact qdisc. This causes the ingress qdisc\n created in step 1 to be removed, thus freeing the previously linked\n tcx_entry:\n\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg()\n =\u003e tc_modify_qdisc()\n =\u003e qdisc_create()\n =\u003e clsact_init() [a]\n =\u003e qdisc_graft()\n =\u003e qdisc_destroy()\n =\u003e __qdisc_destroy()\n =\u003e ingress_destroy() [b]\n =\u003e tcx_entry_free()\n =\u003e kfree_rcu() // tcx_entry freed\n\n 5. Finally, the network namespace is closed. This registers the\n cleanup_net worker, and during the process of releasing the\n remaining clsact qdisc, it accesses the tcx_entry that was\n already freed in step 4, causing the UAF to occur:\n\n cleanup_net()\n =\u003e ops_exit_list()\n =\u003e default_device_exit_batch()\n =\u003e unregister_netdevice_many()\n =\u003e unregister_netdevice_many_notify()\n =\u003e dev_shutdown()\n =\u003e qdisc_put()\n =\u003e clsact_destroy() [c]\n =\u003e tcf_block_put_ext()\n =\u003e tcf_chain0_head_change_cb_del()\n =\u003e tcf_chain_head_change_item()\n =\u003e clsact_chain_head_change()\n =\u003e mini_qdisc_pair_swap() // UAF\n\nThere are also other variants, the gist is to add an ingress (or clsact)\nqdisc with a specific shared block, then to replace that qdisc, waiting\nfor the tcx_entry kfree_rcu() to be executed and subsequently accessing\nthe current active qdisc's miniq one way or another.\n\nThe correct fix is to turn the miniq_active boolean into a counter. What\ncan be observed, at step 2 above, the counter transitions from 0-\u003e1, at\nstep [a] from 1-\u003e2 (in order for the miniq object to remain active during\nthe replacement), then in [b] from 2-\u003e1 and finally [c] 1-\u003e0 with the\neventual release. The reference counter in general ranges from [0,2] and\nit does not need to be atomic since all access to the counter is protected\nby the rtnl mutex. With this in place, there is no longer a UAF happening\nand the tcx_entry is freed at the correct time." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e420bed025071a623d2720a92bc2245c84757ecb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"230bb13650b0f186f540500fd5f5f7096a822a2a"},{"version":"e420bed025071a623d2720a92bc2245c84757ecb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f61ecf1bd5b562ebfd7d430ccb31619857e80857"},{"version":"e420bed025071a623d2720a92bc2245c84757ecb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1cb6f0bae50441f4b4b32a28315853b279c7404e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.41","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","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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