CVE-2024-26585 tls: fix race between tx work scheduling and socket close

What is CVE-2024-26585?

CVE-2024-26585 is a critical vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Feb 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tls: fix race between tx work scheduling and socket close

Similarly to previous commit, the submitting thread (recvmsg/sendmsg) may exit as soon as the async crypto handler calls complete(). Reorder scheduling the work before calling complete(). This seems more logical in the first place, as it's the inverse order of what the submitting thread will do.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26585?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-26585?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2024-26585 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26585 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-35787, AZL-35788, BELL-CVE-2024-26585, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26585, GHSA-63f3-2rgp-79qx, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-26585 and 1 more.