{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38596 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-38596 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-38596 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-38596 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38596 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38596/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38596/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-38596","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38596/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-38596","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2024-38596","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38596","GHSA-7fm3-3cqw-x6wj","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38596"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A data race in the Linux kernel's AF_UNIX socket implementation can lead to a kernel crash, requiring a patch to fix atomic access issues.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":4.7,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-362","name":"Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naf_unix: Fix data races in unix_release_sock/unix_stream_sendmsg\n\nA data-race condition has been identified in af_unix. In one data path,\nthe write function unix_release_sock() atomically writes to\nsk-\u003esk_shutdown using WRITE_ONCE. However, on the reader side,\nunix_stream_sendmsg() does not read it atomically. Consequently, this\nissue is causing the following KCSAN splat to occur:\n\n\tBUG: KCSAN: data-race in unix_release_sock / unix_stream_sendmsg\n\n\twrite (marked) to 0xffff88867256ddbb of 1 bytes by task 7270 on cpu 28:\n\tunix_release_sock (net/unix/af_unix.c:640)\n\tunix_release (net/unix/af_unix.c:1050)\n\tsock_close (net/socket.c:659 net/socket.c:1421)\n\t__fput (fs/file_table.c:422)\n\t__fput_sync (fs/file_table.c:508)\n\t__se_sys_close (fs/open.c:1559 fs/open.c:1541)\n\t__x64_sys_close (fs/open.c:1541)\n\tx64_sys_call (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:33)\n\tdo_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:?)\n\tentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)\n\n\tread to 0xffff88867256ddbb of 1 bytes by task 989 on cpu 14:\n\tunix_stream_sendmsg (net/unix/af_unix.c:2273)\n\t__sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:730 net/socket.c:745)\n\t____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2584)\n\t__sys_sendmmsg (net/socket.c:2638 net/socket.c:2724)\n\t__x64_sys_sendmmsg (net/socket.c:2753 net/socket.c:2750 net/socket.c:2750)\n\tx64_sys_call (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:33)\n\tdo_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:?)\n\tentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)\n\n\tvalue changed: 0x01 -\u003e 0x03\n\nThe line numbers are related to commit dd5a440a31fa (\"Linux 6.9-rc7\").\n\nCommit e1d09c2c2f57 (\"af_unix: Fix data races around sk-\u003esk_shutdown.\")\naddressed a comparable issue in the past regarding sk-\u003esk_shutdown.\nHowever, it overlooked resolving this particular data path.\nThis patch only offending unix_stream_sendmsg() function, since the\nother reads seem to be protected by unix_state_lock() as discussed in","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"af_unix: Fix data races in unix_release_sock/unix_stream_sendmsg","id":"CVE-2024-38596","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":9,"next":{"headline":"eth: sungem: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid deadlocks","id":"CVE-2024-38597"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"net/mlx5: Fix peer devlink set for SF representor devlink port","id":"CVE-2024-38595"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-06-19","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A data race in the Linux kernel's AF_UNIX socket implementation can lead to a kernel crash, requiring a patch to fix atomic access issues.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38596/"}