{"cve":"CVE-2024-26951","nvd":{"published":"2024-05-01T06:15:11.223","modified":"2026-10-15T01:17:33.440","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwireguard: netlink: check for dangling peer via is_dead instead of empty list\n\nIf all peers are removed via wg_peer_remove_all(), rather than setting\npeer_list to empty, the peer is added to a temporary list with a head on\nthe stack of wg_peer_remove_all(). If a netlink dump is resumed and the\ncursored peer is one that has been removed via wg_peer_remove_all(), it\nwill iterate from that peer and then attempt to dump freed peers.\n\nFix this by instead checking peer->is_dead, which was explictly created\nfor this purpose. Also move up the device_update_lock lockdep assertion,\nsince reading is_dead relies on that.\n\nIt can be reproduced by a small script like:\n\n    echo \"Setting config...\"\n    ip link add dev wg0 type wireguard\n    wg setconf wg0 /big-config\n    (\n            while true; do\n                    echo \"Showing config...\"\n                    wg showconf wg0 > /dev/null\n            done\n    ) &\n    sleep 4\n    wg setconf wg0 <(printf \"[Peer]\\nPublicKey=$(wg genkey)\\n\")\n\nResulting in:\n\n    BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0x182a/0x1b20\n    Read of size 8 at addr ffff88811956ec70 by task wg/59\n    CPU: 2 PID: 59 Comm: wg Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2-debug+ #5\n    Call Trace:\n     <TASK>\n     dump_stack_lvl+0x47/0x70\n     print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x380\n     print_report+0xab/0x250\n     kasan_report+0xba/0xf0\n     __lock_acquire+0x182a/0x1b20\n     lock_acquire+0x191/0x4b0\n     down_read+0x80/0x440\n     get_peer+0x140/0xcb0\n     wg_get_device_dump+0x471/0x1130","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8},"cwes":["CWE-416"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13d107794304306164481d31ce33f8fdb25a9c04","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/302b2dfc013baca3dea7ceda383930d9297d231d","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55b6c738673871c9b0edae05d0c97995c1ff08c4","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/710a177f347282eea162aec8712beb1f42d5ad87","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bedfe4cfa38771840a355970e4437cd52d4046b"],"products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:49:08.435428910+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-26951","score":0.00234,"percentile":0.14225,"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."]}