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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-44946" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-08-31T13:22:47.250Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:37:13.816Z" 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-2024-44946" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-44946.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-44946" title: "kcm: Serialise kcm_sendmsg() for the same socket." summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkcm: Serialise kcm_sendmsg() for the same socket.\n\nsyzkaller reported UAF in kcm_release(). [0]\n\nThe scenario is\n\n 1. Thread A builds a skb with MSG_MORE and sets kcm-\u003eseq_skb.\n\n 2. Thread A resumes building skb from kcm-\u003eseq_skb but is blocked\n by sk_stream_wait_memory()\n\n 3. Thread B calls sendmsg() concurrently, finishes building kcm-\u003eseq_skb\n and puts the skb to the write queue\n\n 4. Thread A faces an error and finally frees skb that is already in the\n write queue\n\n 5. kcm_release() does double-free the skb in the write queue\n\nWhen a thread is building a MSG_MORE skb, another thread must not touch it.\n\nLet's add a per-sk mutex and serialise kcm_sendmsg().\n\n[0]:\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __skb_unlink include/linux/skbuff.h:2366 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __skb_dequeue include/linux/skbuff.h:2385 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __skb_queue_purge_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:3175 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __skb_queue_purge include/linux/skbuff.h:3181 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kcm_release+0x170/0x4c8 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:1691\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff0000ced0fc80 by task syz-executor329/6167\n\nCPU: 1 PID: 6167 Comm: syz-executor329 Tainted: G B 6.8.0-rc5-syzkaller-g9abbc24128bc #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/25/2024\nCall trace:\n dump_backtrace+0x1b8/0x1e4 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:291\n show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:298\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0xd0/0x124 lib/dump_stack.c:106\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]\n print_report+0x178/0x518 mm/kasan/report.c:488\n kasan_report+0xd8/0x138 mm/kasan/report.c:601\n __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x20/0x2c mm/kasan/report_generic.c:381\n __skb_unlink include/linux/skbuff.h:2366 [inline]\n __skb_dequeue include/linux/skbuff.h:2385 [inline]\n __skb_queue_purge_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:3175 [inline]\n __skb_queue_purge include/linux/skbuff.h:3181 [inline]\n kcm_release+0x170/0x4c8 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:1691\n __sock_release net/socket.c:659 [inline]\n sock_close+0xa4/0x1e8 net/socket.c:1421\n __fput+0x30c/0x738 fs/file_table.c:376\n ____fput+0x20/0x30 fs/file_table.c:404\n task_work_run+0x230/0x2e0 kernel/task_work.c:180\n exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:38 [inline]\n do_exit+0x618/0x1f64 kernel/exit.c:871\n do_group_exit+0x194/0x22c kernel/exit.c:1020\n get_signal+0x1500/0x15ec kernel/signal.c:2893\n do_signal+0x23c/0x3b44 arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c:1249\n do_notify_resume+0x74/0x1f4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:148\n exit_to_user_mode_prepare arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:169 [inline]\n exit_to_user_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:178 [inline]\n el0_svc+0xac/0x168 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:713\n el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xfc arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:730\n el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:598\n\nAllocated by task 6166:\n kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]\n kasan_save_track+0x40/0x78 mm/kasan/common.c:68\n kasan_save_alloc_info+0x70/0x84 mm/kasan/generic.c:626\n unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:314 [inline]\n __kasan_slab_alloc+0x74/0x8c mm/kasan/common.c:340\n kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:201 [inline]\n slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:3813 [inline]\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3860 [inline]\n kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x204/0x4c0 mm/slub.c:3903\n __alloc_skb+0x19c/0x3d8 net/core/skbuff.c:641\n alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1296 [inline]\n kcm_sendmsg+0x1d3c/0x2124 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:783\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg+0x220/0x2c0 net/socket.c:768\n splice_to_socket+0x7cc/0xd58 fs/splice.c:889\n do_splice_from fs/splice.c:941 [inline]\n direct_splice_actor+0xec/0x1d8 fs/splice.c:1164\n splice_direct_to_actor+0x438/0xa0c fs/splice.c:1108\n do_splice_direct_actor \n---truncated---" affected: 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