# CVE-2024-26614: tcp: make sure init the accept_queue's spinlocks once

> A race condition in the Linux kernel TCP accept queue initialization can cause a spinlock corruption and system crash.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 29 Feb 2024
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-26614, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26614, GHSA-jc3j-vf3f-q43p, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26614

## What is CVE-2024-26614?

CVE-2024-26614 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 29 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

tcp: make sure init the accept_queue's spinlocks once

When I run syz's reproduction C program locally, it causes the following
issue:
pvqspinlock: lock 0xffff9d181cd5c660 has corrupted value 0x0!
WARNING: CPU: 19 PID: 21160 at __pv_queued_spin_unlock_slowpath (kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h:508)
Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:__pv_queued_spin_unlock_slowpath (kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h:508)
Code: 73 56 3a ff 90 c3 cc cc cc cc 8b 05 bb 1f 48 01 85 c0 74 05 c3 cc cc cc cc 8b 17 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7
30 20 ce 8f e8 ad 56 42 ff <0f> 0b c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 0b 0f 1f 40 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffa8d200604cb8 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff9d1ef60e0908
RDX: 00000000ffffffd8 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff9d1ef60e0900
RBP: ffff9d181cd5c280 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000ffff7fff
R10: ffffa8d200604b68 R11: ffffffff907dcdc8 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff9d181cd5c660 R14: ffff9d1813a3f330 R15: 0000000000001000
FS:  00007fa110184640(0000) GS:ffff9d1ef60c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020000000 CR3: 000000011f65e000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
  _raw_spin_unlock (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:186)
  inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add (net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:1321)
  inet_csk_complete_hashdance (net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:1358)
  tcp_check_req (net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c:868)
  tcp_v4_rcv (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2260)
  ip_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:205)
  ip_local_deliver_finish (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:234)
  __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:5529)
  process_backlog (./include/linux/rcupdate.h:779)
  __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:6533)
  net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:6604)
  __do_softirq (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27)
  do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:454 kernel/softirq.c:441)
</IRQ>
<TASK>
  __local_bh_enable_ip (kernel/softirq.c:381)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4374)
  ip_finish_output2 (./include/net/neighbour.h:540 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:235)
  __ip_queue_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:535)
  __tcp_transmit_skb (net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1462)
  tcp_rcv_synsent_state_process (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6469)
  tcp_rcv_state_process (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6657)
  tcp_v4_do_rcv (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1929)
  __release_sock (./include/net/sock.h:1121 net/core/sock.c:2968)
  release_sock (net/core/sock.c:3536)
  inet_wait_for_connect (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:609)
  __inet_stream_connect (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:702)
  inet_stream_connect (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:748)
  __sys_connect (./include/linux/file.h:45 net/socket.c:2064)
  __x64_sys_connect (net/socket.c:2073 net/socket.c:2070 net/socket.c:2070)
  do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82)
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:129)
  RIP: 0033:0x7fa10ff05a3d
  Code: 5b 41 5c c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89
  c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d ab a3 0e 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
  RSP: 002b:00007fa110183de8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a
  RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000020000054 RCX: 00007fa10ff05a3d
  RDX: 000000000000001c RSI: 0000000020000040 RDI: 0000000000000003
  RBP: 00007fa110183e20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007fa110184640
  R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007fa10fe8b060 R15: 00007fff73e23b20
</TASK>

The issue triggering process is analyzed as follows:
Thread A                                       Thread B
tcp_v4_rcv	//receive ack TCP packet       inet_shutdown
  tcp_check_req                                  tcp_disconnect //disconnect sock
  ...                                              tcp_set_state(sk, TCP_CLOSE)
    inet_csk_complete_hashdance                ...
      inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add         
---truncated---

Weakness: CWE-667 (Improper Locking)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26614?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-26614?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-26614 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26614 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-26614 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-26614 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 29 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26614 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26614/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26614/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26614
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26614
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-26614

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