CVE-2024-58053 rxrpc: Fix handling of received connection abort

What is CVE-2024-58053?

CVE-2024-58053 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rxrpc: Fix handling of received connection abort

Fix the handling of a connection abort that we've received. Though the abort is at the connection level, it needs propagating to the calls on that connection. Whilst the propagation bit is performed, the calls aren't then woken up to go and process their termination, and as no further input is forthcoming, they just hang.

Also add some tracing for the logging of connection aborts.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-58053?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-58053?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-58053 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-58053 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-68820, BELL-CVE-2024-58053, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58053, GHSA-fr55-grv4-g65r, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-58053, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2024-58053 and 3 more.