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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-56633" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-12-27T15:02:31.273Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:56:15.744Z" 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-2024-56633" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56633.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56633" title: "tcp_bpf: Fix the sk_mem_uncharge logic in tcp_bpf_sendmsg" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp_bpf: Fix the sk_mem_uncharge logic in tcp_bpf_sendmsg\n\nThe current sk memory accounting logic in __SK_REDIRECT is pre-uncharging\ntosend bytes, which is either msg-\u003esg.size or a smaller value apply_bytes.\n\nPotential problems with this strategy are as follows:\n\n- If the actual sent bytes are smaller than tosend, we need to charge some\n bytes back, as in line 487, which is okay but seems not clean.\n\n- When tosend is set to apply_bytes, as in line 417, and (ret \u003c 0), we may\n miss uncharging (msg-\u003esg.size - apply_bytes) bytes.\n\n[...]\n415 tosend = msg-\u003esg.size;\n416 if (psock-\u003eapply_bytes && psock-\u003eapply_bytes \u003c tosend)\n417 tosend = psock-\u003eapply_bytes;\n[...]\n443 sk_msg_return(sk, msg, tosend);\n444 release_sock(sk);\n446 origsize = msg-\u003esg.size;\n447 ret = tcp_bpf_sendmsg_redir(sk_redir, redir_ingress,\n448 msg, tosend, flags);\n449 sent = origsize - msg-\u003esg.size;\n[...]\n454 lock_sock(sk);\n455 if (unlikely(ret \u003c 0)) {\n456 int free = sk_msg_free_nocharge(sk, msg);\n458 if (!cork)\n459 *copied -= free;\n460 }\n[...]\n487 if (eval == __SK_REDIRECT)\n488 sk_mem_charge(sk, tosend - sent);\n[...]\n\nWhen running the selftest test_txmsg_redir_wait_sndmem with txmsg_apply,\nthe following warning will be reported:\n\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 57 at net/ipv4/af_inet.c:156 inet_sock_destruct+0x190/0x1a0\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 57 Comm: kworker/6:0 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1.bm.1-amd64+ #43\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014\nWorkqueue: events sk_psock_destroy\nRIP: 0010:inet_sock_destruct+0x190/0x1a0\nRSP: 0018:ffffad0a8021fe08 EFLAGS: 00010206\nRAX: 0000000000000011 RBX: ffff9aab4475b900 RCX: ffff9aab481a0800\nRDX: 0000000000000303 RSI: 0000000000000011 RDI: ffff9aab4475b900\nRBP: ffff9aab4475b990 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff9aab40050ec0\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff9aae6fdb1d01 R12: ffff9aab49c60400\nR13: ffff9aab49c60598 R14: ffff9aab49c60598 R15: dead000000000100\nFS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9aae6fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007ffec7e47bd8 CR3: 00000001a1a1c004 CR4: 0000000000770ef0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nPKRU: 55555554\nCall Trace:\n\u003cTASK\u003e\n? __warn+0x89/0x130\n? inet_sock_destruct+0x190/0x1a0\n? report_bug+0xfc/0x1e0\n? handle_bug+0x5c/0xa0\n? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70\n? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20\n? inet_sock_destruct+0x190/0x1a0\n__sk_destruct+0x25/0x220\nsk_psock_destroy+0x2b2/0x310\nprocess_scheduled_works+0xa3/0x3e0\nworker_thread+0x117/0x240\n? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\nkthread+0xcf/0x100\n? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\nret_from_fork+0x31/0x40\n? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\nret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\u003c/TASK\u003e\n---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nIn __SK_REDIRECT, a more concise way is delaying the uncharging after sent\nbytes are finalized, and uncharge this value. When (ret \u003c 0), we shall\ninvoke sk_msg_free.\n\nSame thing happens in case __SK_DROP, when tosend is set to apply_bytes,\nwe may miss uncharging (msg-\u003esg.size - apply_bytes) bytes. The same\nwarning will be reported in selftest.\n\n[...]\n468 case __SK_DROP:\n469 default:\n470 sk_msg_free_partial(sk, msg, tosend);\n471 sk_msg_apply_bytes(psock, tosend);\n472 *copied -= (tosend + delta);\n473 return -EACCES;\n[...]\n\nSo instead of sk_msg_free_partial we can do sk_msg_free here." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"604326b41a6fb9b4a78b6179335decee0365cd8c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"905d82e6e77d16ec3e089c92b7b59a14899dfc1a"},{"version":"604326b41a6fb9b4a78b6179335decee0365cd8c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dbedc7e142df5ea238a46fdd7462c1c42cd36a10"},{"version":"604326b41a6fb9b4a78b6179335decee0365cd8c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d6cd1151e26fc7c2d5daa85e8984aaa685a1a12"},{"version":"604326b41a6fb9b4a78b6179335decee0365cd8c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"456f08d24afa51b5eb816c42e4ca1c44a247bd42"},{"version":"604326b41a6fb9b4a78b6179335decee0365cd8c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"206d56f41a1509cadd06e2178c26cb830e45057d"},{"version":"604326b41a6fb9b4a78b6179335decee0365cd8c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5c9e3bb43a354a2245caebbbbb4a5b8c034fdd56"},{"version":"604326b41a6fb9b4a78b6179335decee0365cd8c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ca70b8baf2bd125b2a4d96e76db79375c07d7ff2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.20","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"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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