Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.1,5.4.282)[5.5,5.10.224)[5.11,5.15.165)[5.16,6.1.103)[6.2,6.6.44)[6.7,6.10.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20697039
  • published9 Oct 2026
  • disclosed17 Aug 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-43846  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.4.282, 5.10.224, 5.15.165, 6.1.103, 6.6.44, 6.10.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free due to improper handling of object aggregation in the objagg library when processing hints. An attacker can cause kernel memory corruption, information disclosure, and system crash by crafting specific filter masks and insertion orders that trigger unsupported nesting during the aggregation process. This is only exploitable if the attacker has CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges in a network namespace and can install offloaded tc flower filters on an mlxsw Spectrum-2+ port, allowing the driver's periodic ACL region rehash work to consume attacker-controlled hints.

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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