Memory corruption via unreferenced TLS receive pages
Published Feb 21, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Use-after-free in the Linux kernel TLS receive path allows local users to trigger unsafe memory access during asynchronous decryption. The tls_decrypt_sg function fails to retain references to clear_skb pages, so tls_decrypt_done releases them before process_rx_list reads a partially consumed socket buffer. Reachability requires kernel TLS receive processing, a partial read, and asynchronous decryption; published assessments bound the result to kernel confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in the Linux kernel TLS receive path allows local users to trigger unsafe memory access during asynchronous decryption. The tls_decrypt_sg function fails to retain references to clear_skb pages, so tls_decrypt_done releases them before process_rx_list reads a partially consumed socket buffer. Reachability requires kernel TLS receive processing, a partial read, and asynchronous decryption; published assessments bound the result to kernel confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-26582
- Published
- Feb 21, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-416
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 21, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.0
- Affected versionversion=fd31f3996af2627106e22a9f8072764fede51161 <20b4ed034872b4d024b26e2bc1092c3f80e5db96
- Affected versionversion=fd31f3996af2627106e22a9f8072764fede51161 <32b55c5ff9103b8508c1e04bfa5a08c64e7a925f
- Affected versionversion=fd31f3996af2627106e22a9f8072764fede51161 <754c9bab77a1b895b97bd99d754403c505bc79df
- Affected versionversion=fd31f3996af2627106e22a9f8072764fede51161 <d684763534b969cca1022e2a28645c7cc91f7fa5
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