CVE-2024-27402: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phonet/pep: fix racy skb_queue_empty() use The receive queues are protected by their respective spin-lock, not the socket lock. This could lead to skb_peek() unexpectedly returning NULL or a pointer to an already dequeued socket buffer.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.28, before 5.15.181 (fixed in 5.15.181); from 5.16, before 6.1.80 (fixed in 6.1.80); from 6.2, before 6.6.19 (fixed in 6.6.19); from 6.7, before 6.7.7 (fixed in 6.7.7); version 6.8 only

Published 2024-05-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.