Open Redirect Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [4.2,6.1.191)[6.2,6.6.156)[6.7,6.8.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20695435
  • published9 Oct 2026
  • disclosed1 May 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 May 2024

CVE-2024-27010  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-833  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.1.191, 6.6.156, 6.8.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Open Redirect in the mirred process. An attacker can cause a deadlock and denial of service by recursively redirecting network packets to the same device, leading to a lock being acquired multiple times on the same queue discipline. This is only exploitable if packet redirection is configured to target the originating device or forms a redirection loop between devices.

Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst

CVSS Base Scores

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