Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-26862

medium Nessus Plugin ID 227940

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: packet: annotate data-races around ignore_outgoing ignore_outgoing is read locklessly from dev_queue_xmit_nit() and packet_getsockopt() Add appropriate READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() annotations. syzbot reported: BUG: KCSAN: data-race in dev_queue_xmit_nit / packet_setsockopt write to 0xffff888107804542 of 1 bytes by task 22618 on cpu 0:
packet_setsockopt+0xd83/0xfd0 net/packet/af_packet.c:4003 do_sock_setsockopt net/socket.c:2311 [inline]
__sys_setsockopt+0x1d8/0x250 net/socket.c:2334 __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2343 [inline]
__se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2340 [inline] __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x66/0x80 net/socket.c:2340 do_syscall_64+0xd3/0x1d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75 read to 0xffff888107804542 of 1 bytes by task 27 on cpu 1: dev_queue_xmit_nit+0x82/0x620 net/core/dev.c:2248 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3527 [inline] dev_hard_start_xmit+0xcc/0x3f0 net/core/dev.c:3547 __dev_queue_xmit+0xf24/0x1dd0 net/core/dev.c:4335 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3091 [inline] batadv_send_skb_packet+0x264/0x300 net/batman- adv/send.c:108 batadv_send_broadcast_skb+0x24/0x30 net/batman-adv/send.c:127 batadv_iv_ogm_send_to_if net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:392 [inline] batadv_iv_ogm_emit net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:420 [inline] batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x3f0/0x4b0 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:1700 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3254 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0x465/0x990 kernel/workqueue.c:3335 worker_thread+0x526/0x730 kernel/workqueue.c:3416 kthread+0x1d1/0x210 kernel/kthread.c:388 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:243 value changed: 0x00 -> 0x01 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 PID: 27 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Tainted: G W 6.8.0-syzkaller-08073-g480e035fc4c7 #0 Hardware name:
Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/29/2024 Workqueue: bat_events batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet (CVE-2024-26862)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 227940

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_26862.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/5/2025

Updated: 3/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-26862

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26862