{"cve":"CVE-2024-26863","nvd":{"published":"2024-04-17T11:15:09.100","modified":"2026-10-15T01:17:26.640","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhsr: Fix uninit-value access in hsr_get_node()\n\nKMSAN reported the following uninit-value access issue [1]:\n\n=====================================================\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hsr_get_node+0xa2e/0xa40 net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c:246\n hsr_get_node+0xa2e/0xa40 net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c:246\n fill_frame_info net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:577 [inline]\n hsr_forward_skb+0xe12/0x30e0 net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:615\n hsr_dev_xmit+0x1a1/0x270 net/hsr/hsr_device.c:223\n __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4940 [inline]\n netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4954 [inline]\n xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3548 [inline]\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x247/0xa10 net/core/dev.c:3564\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x33b8/0x5130 net/core/dev.c:4349\n dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3134 [inline]\n packet_xmit+0x9c/0x6b0 net/packet/af_packet.c:276\n packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3087 [inline]\n packet_sendmsg+0x8b1d/0x9f30 net/packet/af_packet.c:3119\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]\n __sys_sendto+0x735/0xa10 net/socket.c:2191\n __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2203 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2199 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x125/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2199\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x140 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b\n\nUninit was created at:\n slab_post_alloc_hook+0x129/0xa70 mm/slab.h:768\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]\n kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x5e9/0xb10 mm/slub.c:3523\n kmalloc_reserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:560\n __alloc_skb+0x318/0x740 net/core/skbuff.c:651\n alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1286 [inline]\n alloc_skb_with_frags+0xc8/0xbd0 net/core/skbuff.c:6334\n sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xa80/0xbf0 net/core/sock.c:2787\n packet_alloc_skb net/packet/af_packet.c:2936 [inline]\n packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3030 [inline]\n packet_sendmsg+0x70e8/0x9f30 net/packet/af_packet.c:3119\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]\n __sys_sendto+0x735/0xa10 net/socket.c:2191\n __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2203 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2199 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x125/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2199\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x140 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b\n\nCPU: 1 PID: 5033 Comm: syz-executor334 Not tainted 6.7.0-syzkaller-00562-g9f8413c4a66f #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/17/2023\n=====================================================\n\nIf the packet type ID field in the Ethernet header is either ETH_P_PRP or\nETH_P_HSR, but it is not followed by an HSR tag, hsr_get_skb_sequence_nr()\nreads an invalid value as a sequence number. This causes the above issue.\n\nThis patch fixes the issue by returning NULL if the Ethernet header is not\nfollowed by an HSR tag.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-908"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09e5cdbe2cc88c3c758927644a3eb02fac317209","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ed222ca7396938eb1ab2d034f1ba0d8b00a7122","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39cc316fb3bc5e7c9dc5eed314fe510d119c6862","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fb2d4d6bb1c85f7a23aace0ed6c86a95dea792a","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/889ed056eae7fda85b769a9ab33c093379c45428"],"products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:49:08.435428910+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-26863","score":0.00249,"percentile":0.16091,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}