# 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-2024-42312"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-08-17T09:09:16.646Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:48:20.401Z"
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-2024-42312"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-42312.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42312"
title: "sysctl: always initialize i_uid/i_gid"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsysctl: always initialize i_uid/i_gid\n\nAlways initialize i_uid/i_gid inside the sysfs core so set_ownership()\ncan safely skip setting them.\n\nCommit 5ec27ec735ba (\"fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: fix the default values of\ni_uid/i_gid on /proc/sys inodes.\") added defaults for i_uid/i_gid when\nset_ownership() was not implemented. It also missed adjusting\nnet_ctl_set_ownership() to use the same default values in case the\ncomputation of a better value failed."
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