{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-46679 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-46679 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 13 Sep 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-2024-46679 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-46679 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 13 Sep 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-2024-46679 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-2024-46679/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-46679/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-46679","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-46679/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-46679","record":{"aliases":["AZL-49570","BELL-CVE-2024-46679","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46679","GHSA-c2m5-hm36-mq75","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46679"],"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 race condition in the Linux kernel ethtool subsystem allows a local attacker to cause a system crash by reading sysfs attributes during device removal.","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":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nethtool: check device is present when getting link settings\n\nA sysfs reader can race with a device reset or removal, attempting to\nread device state when the device is not actually present. eg:\n\n     [exception RIP: qed_get_current_link+17]\n  #8 [ffffb9e4f2907c48] qede_get_link_ksettings at ffffffffc07a994a [qede]\n  #9 [ffffb9e4f2907cd8] __rh_call_get_link_ksettings at ffffffff992b01a3\n #10 [ffffb9e4f2907d38] __ethtool_get_link_ksettings at ffffffff992b04e4\n #11 [ffffb9e4f2907d90] duplex_show at ffffffff99260300\n #12 [ffffb9e4f2907e38] dev_attr_show at ffffffff9905a01c\n #13 [ffffb9e4f2907e50] sysfs_kf_seq_show at ffffffff98e0145b\n #14 [ffffb9e4f2907e68] seq_read at ffffffff98d902e3\n #15 [ffffb9e4f2907ec8] vfs_read at ffffffff98d657d1\n #16 [ffffb9e4f2907f00] ksys_read at ffffffff98d65c3f\n #17 [ffffb9e4f2907f38] do_syscall_64 at ffffffff98a052fb\n\n crash\u003e struct net_device.state ffff9a9d21336000\n    state = 5,\n\nstate 5 is __LINK_STATE_START (0b1) and __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER (0b100).\nThe device is not present, note lack of __LINK_STATE_PRESENT (0b10).\n\nThis is the same sort of panic as observed in commit 4224cfd7fb65\n(\"net-sysfs: add check for netdevice being present to speed_show\").\n\nThere are many other callers of __ethtool_get_link_ksettings() which\ndon't have a device presence check.\n\nMove this check into ethtool to protect all callers.","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":"ethtool: check device is present when getting link settings","id":"CVE-2024-46679","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":7,"next":{"headline":"Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Fix random crash seen while removing driver","id":"CVE-2024-46680"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"bonding: change ipsec_lock from spin lock to mutex","id":"CVE-2024-46678"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-09-13","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":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel ethtool subsystem allows a local attacker to cause a system crash by reading sysfs attributes during device removal.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-46679/"}