CVE-2024-49940 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2024-49940

l2tp: prevent possible tunnel refcount underflow

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: l2tp: prevent possible tunnel refcount underflow When a session is created, it sets a backpointer to its tunnel. When the session refcount drops to 0, l2tp_session_free drops the tunnel refcount if session->tunnel is non-NULL. However, session->tunnel is set in l2tp_session_create, before the tunnel refcount is incremented by l2tp_session_register, which leaves a small window where session->tunnel is non-NULL when the tunnel refcount hasn't been bumped. Moving the assignment to l2tp_session_register is trivial but l2tp_session_create calls l2tp_session_set_header_len which uses session->tunnel to get the tunnel's encap. Add an encap arg to l2tp_session_set_header_len to avoid using session->tunnel. If l2tpv3 sessions have colliding IDs, it is possible for l2tp_v3_session_get to race with l2tp_session_register and fetch a session which doesn't yet have session->tunnel set. Add a check for this case.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
3953ae7b218df4d1e544b98a393666f9ae58a78c, b102bfc2a90d14f342580285782a9a51c74f7369, 10c15ddabbcf888922adbdd44ca3fecf6eab19d9, 8d1c650d452c53fcb3f02a7b1d772741639f89a4, 12b5fb58ac993c24210cf8cbc72d407d3a4e6490, aef37401b467a0b1a9517c69924a1d66937e0789, 3.2.99, 3.16.54, 4.4.225, 4.9.225, 4.14.182, 4.15, 0, 6.11.3, 6.12

Timeline

Official Publish: October 21st, 2024
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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