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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-56751"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-12-29T11:30:16.805Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:58:23.094Z"
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-2024-56751"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56751.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56751"
title: "ipv6: release nexthop on device removal"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: release nexthop on device removal\n\nThe CI is hitting some aperiodic hangup at device removal time in the\npmtu.sh self-test:\n\nunregister_netdevice: waiting for veth_A-R1 to become free. Usage count = 6\nref_tracker: veth_A-R1@ffff888013df15d8 has 1/5 users at\n\tdst_init+0x84/0x4a0\n\tdst_alloc+0x97/0x150\n\tip6_dst_alloc+0x23/0x90\n\tip6_rt_pcpu_alloc+0x1e6/0x520\n\tip6_pol_route+0x56f/0x840\n\tfib6_rule_lookup+0x334/0x630\n\tip6_route_output_flags+0x259/0x480\n\tip6_dst_lookup_tail.constprop.0+0x5c2/0x940\n\tip6_dst_lookup_flow+0x88/0x190\n\tudp_tunnel6_dst_lookup+0x2a7/0x4c0\n\tvxlan_xmit_one+0xbde/0x4a50 [vxlan]\n\tvxlan_xmit+0x9ad/0xf20 [vxlan]\n\tdev_hard_start_xmit+0x10e/0x360\n\t__dev_queue_xmit+0xf95/0x18c0\n\tarp_solicit+0x4a2/0xe00\n\tneigh_probe+0xaa/0xf0\n\nWhile the first suspect is the dst_cache, explicitly tracking the dst\nowing the last device reference via probes proved such dst is held by\nthe nexthop in the originating fib6_info.\n\nSimilar to commit f5b51fe804ec (\"ipv6: route: purge exception on\nremoval\"), we need to explicitly release the originating fib info when\ndisconnecting a to-be-removed device from a live ipv6 dst: move the\nfib6_info cleanup into ip6_dst_ifdown().\n\nTested running:\n\n./pmtu.sh cleanup_ipv6_exception\n\nin a tight loop for more than 400 iterations with no spat, running an\nunpatched kernel  I observed a splat every ~10 iterations."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f88d8ea67fbdbac7a64bfa6ed9a2ba27bb822f74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"77aa9855a878fb43f547ddfbda3127a1e88ad31a"},{"version":"f88d8ea67fbdbac7a64bfa6ed9a2ba27bb822f74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b2f26a27ea3f72f75d18330f76f5d1007c791848"},{"version":"f88d8ea67fbdbac7a64bfa6ed9a2ba27bb822f74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43e25adc80269f917d2a195f0d59f74cdd182955"},{"version":"f88d8ea67fbdbac7a64bfa6ed9a2ba27bb822f74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3c3f8a4d025acc8c857246ec2b812c59102487a"},{"version":"f88d8ea67fbdbac7a64bfa6ed9a2ba27bb822f74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e4c6faaef8a24b762a24ffb767280e263ef8e10"},{"version":"f88d8ea67fbdbac7a64bfa6ed9a2ba27bb822f74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eb02688c5c45c3e7af7e71f036a7144f5639cbfe"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"version":"5.15.181","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12.2","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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