# CVE-2024-26862: packet: annotate data-races around ignore_outgoing

> A data race in the Linux kernel packet subsystem could lead to undefined behavior or instability, requiring a patch to add proper memory access annotations.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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:** 17 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-26862, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26862, GHSA-8mj5-8fhj-855x, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26862

## What is CVE-2024-26862?

CVE-2024-26862 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 17 Apr 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:

packet: annotate data-races around ignore_outgoing

ignore_outgoing is read locklessly from dev_queue_xmit_nit()
and packet_getsockopt()

Add appropriate READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() annotations.

syzbot reported:

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in dev_queue_xmit_nit / packet_setsockopt

write to 0xffff888107804542 of 1 bytes by task 22618 on cpu 0:
 packet_setsockopt+0xd83/0xfd0 net/packet/af_packet.c:4003
 do_sock_setsockopt net/socket.c:2311 [inline]
 __sys_setsockopt+0x1d8/0x250 net/socket.c:2334
 __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2343 [inline]
 __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2340 [inline]
 __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x66/0x80 net/socket.c:2340
 do_syscall_64+0xd3/0x1d0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75

read to 0xffff888107804542 of 1 bytes by task 27 on cpu 1:
 dev_queue_xmit_nit+0x82/0x620 net/core/dev.c:2248
 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3527 [inline]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0xcc/0x3f0 net/core/dev.c:3547
 __dev_queue_xmit+0xf24/0x1dd0 net/core/dev.c:4335
 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3091 [inline]
 batadv_send_skb_packet+0x264/0x300 net/batman-adv/send.c:108
 batadv_send_broadcast_skb+0x24/0x30 net/batman-adv/send.c:127
 batadv_iv_ogm_send_to_if net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:392 [inline]
 batadv_iv_ogm_emit net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:420 [inline]
 batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x3f0/0x4b0 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:1700
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3254 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x465/0x990 kernel/workqueue.c:3335
 worker_thread+0x526/0x730 kernel/workqueue.c:3416
 kthread+0x1d1/0x210 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:243

value changed: 0x00 -> 0x01

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 PID: 27 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Tainted: G        W          6.8.0-syzkaller-08073-g480e035fc4c7 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/29/2024
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet

Weakness: CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26862?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-26862?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-26862 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26862 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-26862 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-26862 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 17 Apr 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-2024-26862 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-2024-26862/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26862/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26862
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26862
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-26862

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.