CVE-2024-56606EPSS p15.2%
CVE-2024-56606CVE-2024-56606
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
af_packet: avoid erroring out after sock_init_data() in packet_create()
After sock_init_data() the allocated sk object is attached to the provided
sock object. On error, packet_create() frees the sk object leaving the
dangling pointer in the sock object on return. Some other code may try
to use this pointer and cause use-after-free.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.25% probability of exploitation · percentile 15.2% · 2026-10-17T12:00:28Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-15 |