🛡️ AZL-49140 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

CVE-2024-44940 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.176.3-1

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

fou: remove warn in gue_gro_receive on unsupported protocol

Drop the WARN_ON_ONCE inn gue_gro_receive if the encapsulated type is

not known or does not have a GRO handler.

Such a packet is easily constructed. Syzbot generates them and sets

off this warning.

Remove the warning as it is expected and not actionable.

The warning was previously reduced from WARN_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE in

commit 270136613bf7 ("fou: Do WARN_ON_ONCE in gue_gro_receive for bad

proto callbacks").

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

AZL-49140 is recorded against 1 package.

  • kernel (fixed in 5.15.176.3-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 26 August 2024 and last revised on 21 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-08-26
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-04-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel — 5.15.176.3-1

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