# CVE-2024-36484: net: relax socket state check at accept time.

> A kernel bug in the socket accept path triggers a warning and potential crash, allowing local attackers to cause a denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/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:** 21 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-36484, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36484, GHSA-359q-r4g4-7qxp, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36484

## What is CVE-2024-36484?

CVE-2024-36484 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Jun 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:

net: relax socket state check at accept time.

Christoph reported the following splat:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 772 at net/ipv4/af_inet.c:761 __inet_accept+0x1f4/0x4a0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 772 Comm: syz-executor510 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc7-g7da7119fe22b #56
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__inet_accept+0x1f4/0x4a0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:759
Code: 04 38 84 c0 0f 85 87 00 00 00 41 c7 04 24 03 00 00 00 48 83 c4 10 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc e8 ec b7 da fd <0f> 0b e9 7f fe ff ff e8 e0 b7 da fd 0f 0b e9 fe fe ff ff 89 d9 80
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000c2fc58 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff836bdd14 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff888104668000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffffff836bdb89 R09: fffff52000185f64
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000185f64 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff92000185f98 R14: ffff88810754d880 R15: ffff8881007b7800
FS:  000000001c772880(0000) GS:ffff88811b280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fb9fcf2e178 CR3: 00000001045d2002 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 inet_accept+0x138/0x1d0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:786
 do_accept+0x435/0x620 net/socket.c:1929
 __sys_accept4_file net/socket.c:1969 [inline]
 __sys_accept4+0x9b/0x110 net/socket.c:1999
 __do_sys_accept net/socket.c:2016 [inline]
 __se_sys_accept net/socket.c:2013 [inline]
 __x64_sys_accept+0x7d/0x90 net/socket.c:2013
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x4315f9
Code: fd ff 48 81 c4 80 00 00 00 e9 f1 fe ff ff 0f 1f 00 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 0f 83 ab b4 fd ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00
RSP: 002b:00007ffdb26d9c78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002b
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000400300 RCX: 00000000004315f9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00000000006e1018 R08: 0000000000400300 R09: 0000000000400300
R10: 0000000000400300 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000040cdf0 R14: 000000000040ce80 R15: 0000000000000055
 </TASK>

The reproducer invokes shutdown() before entering the listener status.
After commit 94062790aedb ("tcp: defer shutdown(SEND_SHUTDOWN) for
TCP_SYN_RECV sockets"), the above causes the child to reach the accept
syscall in FIN_WAIT1 status.

Eric noted we can relax the existing assertion in __inet_accept()

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-36484?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-36484?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-36484 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-36484 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-36484 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-36484 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Jun 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-2024-36484 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. 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-2024-36484/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-36484/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36484
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36484
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-36484

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