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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-49953" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-10-21T18:02:08.381Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:42:44.242Z" 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-2024-49953" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49953.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49953" title: "net/mlx5e: Fix crash caused by calling __xfrm_state_delete() twice" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Fix crash caused by calling __xfrm_state_delete() twice\n\nThe km.state is not checked in driver's delayed work. When\nxfrm_state_check_expire() is called, the state can be reset to\nXFRM_STATE_EXPIRED, even if it is XFRM_STATE_DEAD already. This\nhappens when xfrm state is deleted, but not freed yet. As\n__xfrm_state_delete() is called again in xfrm timer, the following\ncrash occurs.\n\nTo fix this issue, skip xfrm_state_check_expire() if km.state is not\nXFRM_STATE_VALID.\n\n Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000108: 0000 [#1] SMP\n CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 7448 Comm: kworker/u102:2 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc2+ #1\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n Workqueue: mlx5e_ipsec: eth%d mlx5e_ipsec_handle_sw_limits [mlx5_core]\n RIP: 0010:__xfrm_state_delete+0x3d/0x1b0\n Code: 0f 84 8b 01 00 00 48 89 fd c6 87 c8 00 00 00 05 48 8d bb 40 10 00 00 e8 11 04 1a 00 48 8b 95 b8 00 00 00 48 8b 85 c0 00 00 00 \u003c48\u003e 89 42 08 48 89 10 48 8b 55 10 48 b8 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 48\n RSP: 0018:ffff88885f945ec8 EFLAGS: 00010246\n RAX: dead000000000122 RBX: ffffffff82afa940 RCX: 0000000000000036\n RDX: dead000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff82afb980\n RBP: ffff888109a20340 R08: ffff88885f945ea0 R09: 0000000000000000\n R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff88885f945ff8 R12: 0000000000000246\n R13: ffff888109a20340 R14: ffff88885f95f420 R15: ffff88885f95f400\n FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88885f940000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 00007f2163102430 CR3: 00000001128d6001 CR4: 0000000000370eb0\n DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n Call Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n ? die_addr+0x33/0x90\n ? exc_general_protection+0x1a2/0x390\n ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x22/0x30\n ? __xfrm_state_delete+0x3d/0x1b0\n ? __xfrm_state_delete+0x2f/0x1b0\n xfrm_timer_handler+0x174/0x350\n ? __xfrm_state_delete+0x1b0/0x1b0\n __hrtimer_run_queues+0x121/0x270\n hrtimer_run_softirq+0x88/0xd0\n handle_softirqs+0xcc/0x270\n do_softirq+0x3c/0x50\n \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __local_bh_enable_ip+0x47/0x50\n mlx5e_ipsec_handle_sw_limits+0x7d/0x90 [mlx5_core]\n process_one_work+0x137/0x2d0\n worker_thread+0x28d/0x3a0\n ? rescuer_thread+0x480/0x480\n kthread+0xb8/0xe0\n ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80\n ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50\n ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20\n \u003c/TASK\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b2f7b01d36a9b94fbd7489bd1228025ea7e7a2f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fab615ac9fcb8589222303099975d464d8857527"},{"version":"b2f7b01d36a9b94fbd7489bd1228025ea7e7a2f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b1672834634df9ac9cedf856db9fc36d92c50ef"},{"version":"b2f7b01d36a9b94fbd7489bd1228025ea7e7a2f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"151e7dead1f5399a73c19c4b50307ea48aff1dc0"},{"version":"b2f7b01d36a9b94fbd7489bd1228025ea7e7a2f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7b124695db40d5c9c5295a94ae928a8d67a01c3d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","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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