CVE-2024-27403: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_flow_offload: reset dst in route object after setting up flow dst is transferred to the flow object, route object does not own it anymore. Reset dst in route object, otherwise if flow_offload_add() fails, error path releases dst twice, leading to a refcount underflow.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.16, before 5.15.150 (fixed in 5.15.150); 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 2026-08-04.