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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-50252" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-11-09T10:15:00.949Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:48:31.577Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z" 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-2024-50252" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50252.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50252" title: "mlxsw: spectrum_ipip: Fix memory leak when changing remote IPv6 address" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmlxsw: spectrum_ipip: Fix memory leak when changing remote IPv6 address\n\nThe device stores IPv6 addresses that are used for encapsulation in\nlinear memory that is managed by the driver.\n\nChanging the remote address of an ip6gre net device never worked\nproperly, but since cited commit the following reproducer [1] would\nresult in a warning [2] and a memory leak [3]. The problem is that the\nnew remote address is never added by the driver to its hash table (and\ntherefore the device) and the old address is never removed from it.\n\nFix by programming the new address when the configuration of the ip6gre\nnet device changes and removing the old one. If the address did not\nchange, then the above would result in increasing the reference count of\nthe address and then decreasing it.\n\n[1]\n # ip link add name bla up type ip6gre local 2001:db8:1::1 remote 2001:db8:2::1 tos inherit ttl inherit\n # ip link set dev bla type ip6gre remote 2001:db8:3::1\n # ip link del dev bla\n # devlink dev reload pci/0000:01:00.0\n\n[2]\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1682 at drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c:3002 mlxsw_sp_ipv6_addr_put+0x140/0x1d0\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1682 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3-custom-g86b5b55bc835 #151\nHardware name: Nvidia SN5600/VMOD0013, BIOS 5.13 05/31/2023\nRIP: 0010:mlxsw_sp_ipv6_addr_put+0x140/0x1d0\n[...]\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n mlxsw_sp_router_netdevice_event+0x55f/0x1240\n notifier_call_chain+0x5a/0xd0\n call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x39/0x90\n unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x63e/0x9d0\n rtnl_dellink+0x16b/0x3a0\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x142/0x3f0\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0x100\n netlink_unicast+0x242/0x390\n netlink_sendmsg+0x1de/0x420\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x2bd/0x320\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x9a/0xe0\n __sys_sendmsg+0x7a/0xd0\n do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\n[3]\nunreferenced object 0xffff898081f597a0 (size 32):\n comm \"ip\", pid 1626, jiffies 4294719324\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 20 01 0d b8 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 ...............\n 21 49 61 83 80 89 ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 !Ia.............\n backtrace (crc fd9be911):\n [\u003c00000000df89c55d\u003e] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1da/0x260\n [\u003c00000000ff2a1ddb\u003e] mlxsw_sp_ipv6_addr_kvdl_index_get+0x281/0x340\n [\u003c000000009ddd445d\u003e] mlxsw_sp_router_netdevice_event+0x47b/0x1240\n [\u003c00000000743e7757\u003e] notifier_call_chain+0x5a/0xd0\n [\u003c000000007c7b9e13\u003e] call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x39/0x90\n [\u003c000000002509645d\u003e] register_netdevice+0x5f7/0x7a0\n [\u003c00000000c2e7d2a9\u003e] ip6gre_newlink_common.isra.0+0x65/0x130\n [\u003c0000000087cd6d8d\u003e] ip6gre_newlink+0x72/0x120\n [\u003c000000004df7c7cc\u003e] rtnl_newlink+0x471/0xa20\n [\u003c0000000057ed632a\u003e] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x142/0x3f0\n [\u003c0000000032e0d5b5\u003e] netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0x100\n [\u003c00000000908bca63\u003e] netlink_unicast+0x242/0x390\n [\u003c00000000cdbe1c87\u003e] netlink_sendmsg+0x1de/0x420\n [\u003c0000000011db153e\u003e] ____sys_sendmsg+0x2bd/0x320\n [\u003c000000003b6d53eb\u003e] ___sys_sendmsg+0x9a/0xe0\n [\u003c00000000cae27c62\u003e] __sys_sendmsg+0x7a/0xd0" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"cf42911523e02026cb56d329e584ae5923e94ba1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d8f298eb6659eb6a38e26b79e77de4449dc6e61b"},{"version":"cf42911523e02026cb56d329e584ae5923e94ba1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"31384aa2ad05c29c7745000f321154f42de24d1a"},{"version":"cf42911523e02026cb56d329e584ae5923e94ba1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1bbdbe07f0bc3bc9f87efe4672d67208c6d6942"},{"version":"cf42911523e02026cb56d329e584ae5923e94ba1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12ae97c531fcd3bfd774d4dfeaeac23eafe24280"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.1.116","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.60","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.7","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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