# CVE-2024-56647: net: Fix icmp host relookup triggering ip_rt_bug

> A Linux kernel bug in ICMP handling with XFRM enabled can trigger a kernel warning and potential 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:** 27 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-54735, AZL-54815, BELL-CVE-2024-56647, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56647, GHSA-rvhx-c29r-93j7, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-56647, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2024-56647, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2024-56647, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56647

## What is CVE-2024-56647?

CVE-2024-56647 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Dec 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: Fix icmp host relookup triggering ip_rt_bug

arp link failure may trigger ip_rt_bug while xfrm enabled, call trace is:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at net/ipv4/route.c:1241 ip_rt_bug+0x14/0x20
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-00077-g2e1b3cc9d7f7
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ip_rt_bug+0x14/0x20
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 ip_send_skb+0x14/0x40
 __icmp_send+0x42d/0x6a0
 ipv4_link_failure+0xe2/0x1d0
 arp_error_report+0x3c/0x50
 neigh_invalidate+0x8d/0x100
 neigh_timer_handler+0x2e1/0x330
 call_timer_fn+0x21/0x120
 __run_timer_base.part.0+0x1c9/0x270
 run_timer_softirq+0x4c/0x80
 handle_softirqs+0xac/0x280
 irq_exit_rcu+0x62/0x80
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x77/0x90

The script below reproduces this scenario:
ip xfrm policy add src 0.0.0.0/0 dst 0.0.0.0/0 \
	dir out priority 0 ptype main flag localok icmp
ip l a veth1 type veth
ip a a 192.168.141.111/24 dev veth0
ip l s veth0 up
ping 192.168.141.155 -c 1

icmp_route_lookup() create input routes for locally generated packets
while xfrm relookup ICMP traffic.Then it will set input route
(dst->out = ip_rt_bug) to skb for DESTUNREACH.

For ICMP err triggered by locally generated packets, dst->dev of output
route is loopback. Generally, xfrm relookup verification is not required
on loopback interfaces (net.ipv4.conf.lo.disable_xfrm = 1).

Skip icmp relookup for locally generated packets to fix it.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-56647?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-56647?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-56647 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56647 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-56647 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-56647 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Dec 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-2024-56647 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-2024-56647/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56647/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56647
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56647
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-56647

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