# 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-2024-56601"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-12-27T14:51:07.358Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:59:42.066Z"
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-2024-56601"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56601.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56601"
title: "net: inet: do not leave a dangling sk pointer in inet_create()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: inet: do not leave a dangling sk pointer in inet_create()\n\nsock_init_data() attaches the allocated sk object to the provided sock\nobject. If inet_create() fails later, the sk object is freed, but the\nsock object retains the dangling pointer, which may create use-after-free\nlater.\n\nClear the sk pointer in the sock object on error."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f8a3f255f7509a209292871715cda03779640c8d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2bc34d8c8898ae9fddf4612501aabb22d76c2b2c"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e8258070b0f2aba66b3ef18883de229674fb288"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4513cfd3a10c03c660d5d3d26c2e322efbfdd9b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"25447c6aaa7235f155292b0c58a067347e8ae891"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"691d6d816f93b2a1008c14178399061466e674ef"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9365fa510c6f82e3aa550a09d0c5c6b44dbc78ff"}],"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"}]

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