CVE-2024-49571: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: check iparea_offset and ipv6_prefixes_cnt when receiving proposal msg When receiving proposal msg in server, the field iparea_offset and the field ipv6_prefixes_cnt in proposal msg are from the remote client and can not be fully trusted. Especially the field iparea_offset, once exceed the max value, there has the chance to access wrong address, and crash may happen. This patch checks iparea_offset and ipv6_prefixes_cnt before using them.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.16, before 5.10.233 (fixed in 5.10.233); from 5.11, before 5.15.176 (fixed in 5.15.176); from 5.16, before 6.1.122 (fixed in 6.1.122); from 6.2, before 6.6.68 (fixed in 6.6.68); from 6.7, before 6.12.7 (fixed in 6.12.7); version 6.13 only

Published 2025-01-11. Last modified 2026-08-04.