CVE-2024-26740: Linux kernel · net/sched: act_mirred: use the backlog for mirred ingress
Source GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.5 Medium.
Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 16:33 UTC
Thin evidence
One scorer or noneCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 3 Apr 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 30 Oct 2026.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: act_mirred: use the backlog for mirred ingress The test Davide added in commit ca22da2fbd69 ("act_mirred: use the backlog for nested calls to mirred ingress") hangs our testing VMs every 10 or so runs, with the familiar tcp_v4_rcv -> tcp_v4_rcv deadlock reported by lockdep. The problem as previously described by Davide (see Link) is that if we reverse flow of traffic with the redirect (egress -> ingress) we may reach the same socket which generated the packet. And we may still be holding its socket lock. The common solution to such deadlocks is to put the packet in the Rx backlog, rather than run the Rx path inline. Do that for all egress -> ingress reversals, not just once we started to nest mirred calls. In the past there was a concern that the backlog indirection will lead to loss of error reporting / less accurate stats. But the current workaround does not seem to address the issue.
References
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26740 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/52f671db18823089a02f07efc04efdb2272ddc17 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/60ddea1600bc476e0f5e02bce0e29a460ccbf0be (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c787888d164689da8b1b115f3ef562c1e843af4 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac5c2ed6394c85f84877b1a1eec61cf004f90f4f (opens in a new tab)