🛡️ CVE-2024-46697 — kernel

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

nfsd: ensure that nfsd4_fattr_args.context is zeroed out

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

nfsd: ensure that nfsd4_fattr_args.context is zeroed out

If nfsd4_encode_fattr4 ends up doing a "goto out" before we get to

checking for the security label, then args.context will be set to

uninitialized junk on the stack, which we'll then try to free.

Initialize it early.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no 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

CVE-2024-46697 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.7.0 up to 6.10.8)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 13 September 2024 and last revised on 6 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2024-46697 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Critical
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-09-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-06

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.7.0 6.10.8
linux-kernel — —

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