CVE-2024-45018: 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: flowtable: initialise extack before use Fix missing initialisation of extack in flow offload.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.5, before 5.10.225 (fixed in 5.10.225); from 5.11, before 5.15.166 (fixed in 5.15.166); from 5.16, before 6.1.107 (fixed in 6.1.107); from 6.2, before 6.6.48 (fixed in 6.6.48); from 6.7, before 6.10.7 (fixed in 6.10.7); version 6.11 only

Published 2024-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.