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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-53680" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-01-11T12:25:21.794Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:53:36.270Z" 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-2024-53680" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-53680.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53680" title: "ipvs: fix UB due to uninitialized stack access in ip_vs_protocol_init()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipvs: fix UB due to uninitialized stack access in ip_vs_protocol_init()\n\nUnder certain kernel configurations when building with Clang/LLVM, the\ncompiler does not generate a return or jump as the terminator\ninstruction for ip_vs_protocol_init(), triggering the following objtool\nwarning during build time:\n\n vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: ip_vs_protocol_init() falls through to next function __initstub__kmod_ip_vs_rr__935_123_ip_vs_rr_init6()\n\nAt runtime, this either causes an oops when trying to load the ipvs\nmodule or a boot-time panic if ipvs is built-in. This same issue has\nbeen reported by the Intel kernel test robot previously.\n\nDigging deeper into both LLVM and the kernel code reveals this to be a\nundefined behavior problem. ip_vs_protocol_init() uses a on-stack buffer\nof 64 chars to store the registered protocol names and leaves it\nuninitialized after definition. The function calls strnlen() when\nconcatenating protocol names into the buffer. With CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE\nstrnlen() performs an extra step to check whether the last byte of the\ninput char buffer is a null character (commit 3009f891bb9f (\"fortify:\nAllow strlen() and strnlen() to pass compile-time known lengths\")).\nThis, together with possibly other configurations, cause the following\nIR to be generated:\n\n define hidden i32 @ip_vs_protocol_init() local_unnamed_addr #5 section \".init.text\" align 16 !kcfi_type !29 {\n %1 = alloca [64 x i8], align 16\n ...\n\n 14: ; preds = %11\n %15 = getelementptr inbounds i8, ptr %1, i64 63\n %16 = load i8, ptr %15, align 1\n %17 = tail call i1 @llvm.is.constant.i8(i8 %16)\n %18 = icmp eq i8 %16, 0\n %19 = select i1 %17, i1 %18, i1 false\n br i1 %19, label %20, label %23\n\n 20: ; preds = %14\n %21 = call i64 @strlen(ptr noundef nonnull dereferenceable(1) %1) #23\n ...\n\n 23: ; preds = %14, %11, %20\n %24 = call i64 @strnlen(ptr noundef nonnull dereferenceable(1) %1, i64 noundef 64) #24\n ...\n }\n\nThe above code calculates the address of the last char in the buffer\n(value %15) and then loads from it (value %16). Because the buffer is\nnever initialized, the LLVM GVN pass marks value %16 as undefined:\n\n %13 = getelementptr inbounds i8, ptr %1, i64 63\n br i1 undef, label %14, label %17\n\nThis gives later passes (SCCP, in particular) more DCE opportunities by\npropagating the undef value further, and eventually removes everything\nafter the load on the uninitialized stack location:\n\n define hidden i32 @ip_vs_protocol_init() local_unnamed_addr #0 section \".init.text\" align 16 !kcfi_type !11 {\n %1 = alloca [64 x i8], align 16\n ...\n\n 12: ; preds = %11\n %13 = getelementptr inbounds i8, ptr %1, i64 63\n unreachable\n }\n\nIn this way, the generated native code will just fall through to the\nnext function, as LLVM does not generate any code for the unreachable IR\ninstruction and leaves the function without a terminator.\n\nZero the on-stack buffer to avoid this possible UB." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"31d1ddc1ce8e8d3f101a679243abb42a313ee88a"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b2cbed82b7c6504a8a0fbd181f92dd56b432c12"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d6e1776f51c95827142f1d7064118e255e2deec1"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"664d0feab92495b6a27edc3d1119e232c0fe8b2b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"124834133b32f9386bb2d8581d9ab92f65e951e4"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"48130002e64fd191b7d18efeb4d253fcc23e4688"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"146b6f1112eb30a19776d6c323c994e9d67790db"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.4.287","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.231","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.174","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.66","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","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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