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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-56640" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-12-27T15:02:42.253Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:45:38.986Z" 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-2024-56640" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56640.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56640" title: "net/smc: fix LGR and link use-after-free issue" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: fix LGR and link use-after-free issue\n\nWe encountered a LGR/link use-after-free issue, which manifested as\nthe LGR/link refcnt reaching 0 early and entering the clear process,\nmaking resource access unsafe.\n\n refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.\n WARNING: CPU: 14 PID: 107447 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0x140\n Workqueue: events smc_lgr_terminate_work [smc]\n Call trace:\n refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0x140\n __smc_lgr_terminate.part.45+0x2a8/0x370 [smc]\n smc_lgr_terminate_work+0x28/0x30 [smc]\n process_one_work+0x1b8/0x420\n worker_thread+0x158/0x510\n kthread+0x114/0x118\n\nor\n\n refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.\n WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 93140 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xf0/0x140\n Workqueue: smc_hs_wq smc_listen_work [smc]\n Call trace:\n refcount_warn_saturate+0xf0/0x140\n smcr_link_put+0x1cc/0x1d8 [smc]\n smc_conn_free+0x110/0x1b0 [smc]\n smc_conn_abort+0x50/0x60 [smc]\n smc_listen_find_device+0x75c/0x790 [smc]\n smc_listen_work+0x368/0x8a0 [smc]\n process_one_work+0x1b8/0x420\n worker_thread+0x158/0x510\n kthread+0x114/0x118\n\nIt is caused by repeated release of LGR/link refcnt. One suspect is that\nsmc_conn_free() is called repeatedly because some smc_conn_free() from\nserver listening path are not protected by sock lock.\n\ne.g.\n\nCalls under socklock | smc_listen_work\n-------------------------------------------------------\nlock_sock(sk) | smc_conn_abort\nsmc_conn_free | \\- smc_conn_free\n\\- smcr_link_put | \\- smcr_link_put (duplicated)\nrelease_sock(sk)\n\nSo here add sock lock protection in smc_listen_work() path, making it\nexclusive with other connection operations." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3b2dec2603d5b06ad3af71c1164ca0b92df3d2a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f502a88fdd415647a1f2dc45fac71b9c522a052b"},{"version":"3b2dec2603d5b06ad3af71c1164ca0b92df3d2a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0cf598548a6c36d90681d53c6b77d52363f2f295"},{"version":"3b2dec2603d5b06ad3af71c1164ca0b92df3d2a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"673d606683ac70bc074ca6676b938bff18635226"},{"version":"3b2dec2603d5b06ad3af71c1164ca0b92df3d2a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f0ae06a234a78ae137064f2c89135ac078a00eb"},{"version":"3b2dec2603d5b06ad3af71c1164ca0b92df3d2a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2c7f14ed9c19ec0f149479d1c2842ec1f9bf76d7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.18"},{"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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