CVE-2024-26780

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2024-04-04. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
5.5
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

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

af_unix: Fix task hung while purging oob_skb in GC.

syzbot reported a task hung; at the same time, GC was looping infinitely in list_for_each_entry_safe() for OOB skb. [0]

syzbot demonstrated that the list_for_each_entry_safe() was not actually safe in this case.

A single skb could have references for multiple sockets. If we free such a skb in the list_for_each_entry_safe(), the current and next sockets could be unlinked in a single iteration.

unix_notinflight() uses list_del_init() to unlink the socket, so the prefetched next socket forms a loop itself and list_for_each_entry_safe() never stops.

Here, we must use while() and make sure we always fetch the first socket.

[0]: Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1: NMI backtrace for cpu 1 CPU: 1 PID: 5065 Comm: syz-executor236 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc3-syzkaller-00136-g1f719a2f3fa6 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/25/2024 RIP: 0010:preempt_count arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:26 [inline] RIP: 0010:check_kcov_mode kernel/kcov.c:173 [inline] RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0xd/0x60 kernel/kcov.c:207 Code: cc cc cc cc 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 65 48 8b 14 25 40 c2 03 00 <65> 8b 05 b4 7c 78 7e a9 00 01 ff 00 48 8b 34 24 74 0f f6 c4 01 74 RSP: 0018:ffffc900033efa58 EFLAGS: 00000283 RAX: ffff88807b077800 RBX: ffff88807b077800 RCX: 1ffffffff27b1189 RDX: ffff88802a5a3b80 RSI: ffffffff8968488d RDI: ffff88807b077f70 RBP: ffffc900033efbb0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffffbfff27a900c R10: ffffffff93d48067 R11: ffffffff8ae000eb R12: ffff88807b077800 R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88807b077e40 R15: 0000000000000001 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000564f4fc1e3a8 CR3: 000000000d57a000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: unix_gc+0x563/0x13b0 net/unix/garbage.c:319 unix_release_sock+0xa93/0xf80 net/unix/af_unix.c:683 unix_release+0x91/0xf0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1064 __sock_release+0xb0/0x270 net/socket.c:659 sock_close+0x1c/0x30 net/socket.c:1421 __fput+0x270/0xb80 fs/file_table.c:376 task_work_run+0x14f/0x250 kernel/task_work.c:180 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:38 [inline] do_exit+0xa8a/0x2ad0 kernel/exit.c:871 do_group_exit+0xd4/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1020 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1031 [inline] __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1029 [inline] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3e/0x50 kernel/exit.c:1029 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xd5/0x270 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6f/0x77 RIP: 0033:0x7f9d6cbdac09 Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f9d6cbdabdf. RSP: 002b:00007fff5952feb8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f9d6cbdac09 RDX: 000000000000003c RSI: 00000000000000e7 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 00007f9d6cc552b0 R08: ffffffffffffffb8 R09: 0000000000000006 R10: 0000000000000006 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f9d6cc552b0 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f9d6cc55d00 R15: 00007f9d6cbabe70

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5(medium)
EG Risk
25(Track)
EG Risk 25/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity55% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS
12.9%
KEV
Not listed

Published

April 4, 2024

Last Modified

March 18, 2025

References (10)

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
linuxKernel @ 6.1.81—osv

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2024-26780?
CVE-2024-26780 is a medium vulnerability published on April 4, 2024. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix task hung while purging oobskb in GC. syzbot reported a task hung; at the same time, GC was looping infinitely in listforeachentrysafe() for OOB skb. [0] syzbot demonstrated that the listforeachentrysafe() was not…
When was CVE-2024-26780 disclosed?
CVE-2024-26780 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on April 4, 2024, with the most recent update on March 18, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2024-26780 actively exploited?
CVE-2024-26780 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 12.9% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2024-26780?
CVE-2024-26780 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2024-26780?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2024-26780, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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