{"cve":"CVE-2024-50257","nvd":{"published":"2024-11-09T11:15:11.340","modified":"2026-08-04T11:21:37.863","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: Fix use-after-free in get_info()\n\nip6table_nat module unload has refcnt warning for UAF. call trace is:\n\nWARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 379 at kernel/module/main.c:853 module_put+0x6f/0x80\nModules linked in: ip6table_nat(-)\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 379 Comm: ip6tables Not tainted 6.12.0-rc4-00047-gc2ee9f594da8-dirty #205\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),\nBIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:module_put+0x6f/0x80\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n get_info+0x128/0x180\n do_ip6t_get_ctl+0x6a/0x430\n nf_getsockopt+0x46/0x80\n ipv6_getsockopt+0xb9/0x100\n rawv6_getsockopt+0x42/0x190\n do_sock_getsockopt+0xaa/0x180\n __sys_getsockopt+0x70/0xc0\n __x64_sys_getsockopt+0x20/0x30\n do_syscall_64+0xa2/0x1a0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nConcurrent execution of module unload and get_info() trigered the warning.\nThe root cause is as follows:\n\ncpu0\t\t\t\t      cpu1\nmodule_exit\n//mod->state = MODULE_STATE_GOING\n  ip6table_nat_exit\n    xt_unregister_template\n\tkfree(t)\n\t//removed from templ_list\n\t\t\t\t      getinfo()\n\t\t\t\t\t  t = xt_find_table_lock\n\t\t\t\t\t\tlist_for_each_entry(tmpl, &xt_templates[af]...)\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (strcmp(tmpl->name, name))\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcontinue;  //table not found\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttry_module_get\n\t\t\t\t\t\tlist_for_each_entry(t, &xt_net->tables[af]...)\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn t;  //not get refcnt\n\t\t\t\t\t  module_put(t->me) //uaf\n    unregister_pernet_subsys\n    //remove table from xt_net list\n\nWhile xt_table module was going away and has been removed from\nxt_templates list, we couldnt get refcnt of xt_table->me. Check\nmodule in xt_net->tables list re-traversal to fix it.","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/6a1f088f9807f5166f58902d26246d0b88da03a8","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba22ea01348384df19cc1fabc7964be6e7189749","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bab3bb35c03b263c486833d50d50c081d9e9832b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb7c388b5967946f097afdb759b7c860305f2d96","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f48d258f0ac540f00fa617dac496c4c18b5dc2fa"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:57:07.693694550+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-50257","score":0.00256,"percentile":0.17249,"date":"2026-10-31"},"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."]}