CVE-2024-26951

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.8)—

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wireguard: netlink: check for dangling peer via is_dead instead of empty list

If all peers are removed via wg_peer_remove_all(), rather than setting peer_list to empty, the peer is added to a temporary list with a head on the stack of wg_peer_remove_all(). If a netlink dump is resumed and the cursored peer is one that has been removed via wg_peer_remove_all(), it will iterate from that peer and then attempt to dump freed peers.

Fix this by instead checking peer->is_dead, which was explictly created for this purpose. Also move up the device_update_lock lockdep assertion, since reading is_dead relies on that.

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It can be reproduced by a small script like:

Resulting in:

Technical details traces, logs and code from the original report

    echo "Setting config..."
    ip link add dev wg0 type wireguard
    wg setconf wg0 /big-config
    (
            while true; do
                    echo "Showing config..."
                    wg showconf wg0 > /dev/null
            done
    ) &
    sleep 4
    wg setconf wg0 <(printf "[Peer]\nPublicKey=$(wg genkey)\n")

    BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0x182a/0x1b20
    Read of size 8 at addr ffff88811956ec70 by task wg/59
    CPU: 2 PID: 59 Comm: wg Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2-debug+ #5
    Call Trace:
     <TASK>
     dump_stack_lvl+0x47/0x70
     print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x380
     print_report+0xab/0x250
     kasan_report+0xba/0xf0
     __lock_acquire+0x182a/0x1b20
     lock_acquire+0x191/0x4b0
     down_read+0x80/0x440
     get_peer+0x140/0xcb0
     wg_get_device_dump+0x471/0x1130

CVSS

Version: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Base score: 7.8

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.23%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 13
Score date: 10/8/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (2)

Debian — Debian Linux Linux — Linux Kernel

CWEs

CWE-416

References

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