HighFix available
netfilter: nfnetlink: Initialise extack before use in ACKs
Type: advisorySources: OSV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nfnetlink: Initialise extack before use in ACKs Add missing extack initialisation when ACKing BATCH_BEGIN and BATCH_END.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.10.7
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-44945
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 10:53 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
netfilter: nfnetlink: Initialise extack before use in ACKs
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 31 Aug 2024, 06:23 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nfnetlink: Initialise extack before use in ACKs Add missing extack initialisation when ACKing BATCH_BEGIN and BATCH_END.
osv:CVE-2024-44945
Kernel
Fixed versions: 6.10.7
Complete source record
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