What is CVE-2024-23849?

CVE-2024-23849 is a Medium severity Linux kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10. CVE-2024-23849 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2024-23849?

CVE-2024-23849 has a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10, rated Medium severity. The vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Is there a patch available for CVE-2024-23849?

No patch is currently available for CVE-2024-23849. Monitor the NIST NVD and your Linux distribution's security advisories for updates.

Is CVE-2024-23849 actively exploited?

CVE-2024-23849 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

CVE-2024-23849

Medium

In rds_recv_track_latency in net/rds/af_rds.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.1, there is an off-by-one error for an RDS_MSG_RX_DGRAM_TRACE_MAX comparison, resulting in out-of-bounds access.

Package Linux Kernel

Published 2024-01-23

Last modified 2025-11-04

CVSS version 3.1

Patch available

Awaiting data

CVSS 3.1 score

5.5

out of 10

Medium

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Vector string

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness type

CWE-193

CVE-2024-23849 is classified as CWE-193

See CWE-193 on MITRE CWE for full details on this weakness type.

References

The following references provide additional information about CVE-2024-23849 including vendor advisories, patch commits, exploit details, and third-party analysis. Links are sourced from the NIST NVD database.

SUSE
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219127
Debian Security
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html
Debian Security
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html
Lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7LSPIOMIJYTLZB6QKPQVVAYSUETUWKPF/
Lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LBVHM4LGMFIHBN4UBESYRFMYX3WUICV5/
Kernel.org
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1705715319-19199-1-git-send-email-sharath.srinivasan%40oracle.com/

Mailing List Vendor Advisory
Kernel.org
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CALGdzuoVdq-wtQ4Az9iottBqC5cv9ZhcE5q8N7LfYFvkRsOVcw%40mail.gmail.com

Mailing List Vendor Advisory
Lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LBVHM4LGMFIHBN4UBESYRFMYX3WUICV5/
Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=13e788deb7348cc88df34bed736c3b3b9927ea52
Patch

Details

CVE ID CVE-2024-23849

Severity Medium

CVSS score 5.5 / 10

CVSS version 3.1

Published 2024-01-23

Modified 2025-11-04

KEV No

Patch Awaiting data

Package linux

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-23849?

CVE-2024-23849 is a Medium severity Linux kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10 . CVE-2024-23849 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
What is the CVSS score for CVE-2024-23849?

CVE-2024-23849 has a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10, rated Medium severity (CVSS 3.1). The vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Is there a patch available for CVE-2024-23849?

No patch is currently available for CVE-2024-23849. Monitor the NIST NVD and your Linux distribution's security advisories for updates.
Is CVE-2024-23849 actively exploited?

No — CVE-2024-23849 has not been confirmed as actively exploited. It is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.