CVE-2024-27417: Debian Linux

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: ipv6: fix potential "struct net" leak in inet6_rtm_getaddr() It seems that if userspace provides a correct IFA_TARGET_NETNSID value but no IFA_ADDRESS and IFA_LOCAL attributes, inet6_rtm_getaddr() returns -EINVAL with an elevated "struct net" refcount.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.20, before 5.4.271 (fixed in 5.4.271); from 5.5, before 5.10.212 (fixed in 5.10.212); from 5.11, before 5.15.151 (fixed in 5.15.151); from 5.16, before 6.1.81 (fixed in 6.1.81); from 6.2, before 6.6.21 (fixed in 6.6.21); from 6.7, before 6.7.9 (fixed in 6.7.9); …

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