{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-44946 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-44946 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 31 Aug 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-2024-44946 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-44946 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 31 Aug 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-2024-44946 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-2024-44946/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-44946/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-44946","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-44946/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-44946","record":{"aliases":["AZL-48529","AZL-48594","BELL-CVE-2024-44946","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44946","GHSA-cw5c-5w4g-ff67","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-44946"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel KCM module allows a use-after-free, potentially leading to system crashes or arbitrary code execution.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-416","name":"Use After Free"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkcm: Serialise kcm_sendmsg() for the same socket.\n\nsyzkaller reported UAF in kcm_release(). [0]\n\nThe scenario is\n\n  1. Thread A builds a skb with MSG_MORE and sets kcm-\u003eseq_skb.\n\n  2. Thread A resumes building skb from kcm-\u003eseq_skb but is blocked\n     by sk_stream_wait_memory()\n\n  3. Thread B calls sendmsg() concurrently, finishes building kcm-\u003eseq_skb\n     and puts the skb to the write queue\n\n  4. Thread A faces an error and finally frees skb that is already in the\n     write queue\n\n  5. kcm_release() does double-free the skb in the write queue\n\nWhen a thread is building a MSG_MORE skb, another thread must not touch it.\n\nLet's add a per-sk mutex and serialise kcm_sendmsg().\n\n[0]:\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __skb_unlink include/linux/skbuff.h:2366 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __skb_dequeue include/linux/skbuff.h:2385 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __skb_queue_purge_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:3175 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __skb_queue_purge include/linux/skbuff.h:3181 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kcm_release+0x170/0x4c8 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:1691\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff0000ced0fc80 by task syz-executor329/6167\n\nCPU: 1 PID: 6167 Comm: syz-executor329 Tainted: G    B              6.8.0-rc5-syzkaller-g9abbc24128bc #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/25/2024\nCall trace:\n dump_backtrace+0x1b8/0x1e4 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:291\n show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:298\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0xd0/0x124 lib/dump_stack.c:106\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]\n print_report+0x178/0x518 mm/kasan/report.c:488\n kasan_report+0xd8/0x138 mm/kasan/report.c:601\n __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x20/0x2c mm/kasan/report_generic.c:381\n __skb_unlink include/linux/skbuff.h:2366 [inline]\n __skb_dequeue include/linux/skbuff.h:2385 [inline]\n __skb_queue_purge_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:3175 [inline]\n __skb_queue_purge include/linux/skbuff.h:3181 [inline]\n kcm_release+0x170/0x4c8 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:1691\n __sock_release net/socket.c:659 [inline]\n sock_close+0xa4/0x1e8 net/socket.c:1421\n __fput+0x30c/0x738 fs/file_table.c:376\n ____fput+0x20/0x30 fs/file_table.c:404\n task_work_run+0x230/0x2e0 kernel/task_work.c:180\n exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:38 [inline]\n do_exit+0x618/0x1f64 kernel/exit.c:871\n do_group_exit+0x194/0x22c kernel/exit.c:1020\n get_signal+0x1500/0x15ec kernel/signal.c:2893\n do_signal+0x23c/0x3b44 arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c:1249\n do_notify_resume+0x74/0x1f4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:148\n exit_to_user_mode_prepare arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:169 [inline]\n exit_to_user_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:178 [inline]\n el0_svc+0xac/0x168 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:713\n el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xfc arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:730\n el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:598\n\nAllocated by task 6166:\n kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]\n kasan_save_track+0x40/0x78 mm/kasan/common.c:68\n kasan_save_alloc_info+0x70/0x84 mm/kasan/generic.c:626\n unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:314 [inline]\n __kasan_slab_alloc+0x74/0x8c mm/kasan/common.c:340\n kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:201 [inline]\n slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:3813 [inline]\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3860 [inline]\n kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x204/0x4c0 mm/slub.c:3903\n __alloc_skb+0x19c/0x3d8 net/core/skbuff.c:641\n alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1296 [inline]\n kcm_sendmsg+0x1d3c/0x2124 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:783\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg+0x220/0x2c0 net/socket.c:768\n splice_to_socket+0x7cc/0xd58 fs/splice.c:889\n do_splice_from fs/splice.c:941 [inline]\n direct_splice_actor+0xec/0x1d8 fs/splice.c:1164\n splice_direct_to_actor+0x438/0xa0c fs/splice.c:1108\n do_splice_direct_actor \n---truncated---","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":"2024-09-01","github_poc":1,"max_poc_stars":1,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2024-09-01T13:45:12Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/Abdurahmon3236/CVE-2024-44946","stars":1,"title":null}],"tier":"poc_unverified"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"kcm: Serialise kcm_sendmsg() for the same 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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 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