VulnerabilityPublished 21 Oct 2024Updated 28 Oct 2026

CVE-2024-47693: Linux kernel · IB/core: Fix ib_cache_setup_one error flow cleanup

Affects Linux kernelSource GCVE Database

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.5 Medium · fixed in 5.15.0-1073.79~20.04.1 : update Linux kernel when convenient.

Data as of 28 Oct 2026, 11:13 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

6.5Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Patch: Available – fixed in 5.15.0-1073.79~20.04.1, 5.15.0-1078.87~20.04.1, 5.15.0-1072.80~20.04.1 +58

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

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: Low: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges may have the ability to cause an impact only to non-sensitive resources.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 21 Oct 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: 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 26 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade to a fixed release listed under Affected software.

Patches and advisories

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Ubuntu 24.04 LTSlinux`pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux?arch=source&distro=noble`Other threats	Affected <6.8.0-54.56	Fixed in 6.8.0-54.56
Ubuntu 24.04 LTSlinux-aws`pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-aws?arch=source&distro=noble`Other threats	Affected <6.8.0-1023.25	Fixed in 6.8.0-1023.25
Ubuntu 24.04 LTSlinux-azure`pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-azure?arch=source&distro=noble`Other threats	Affected <6.8.0-1025.30	Fixed in 6.8.0-1025.30
Ubuntu 24.04 LTSlinux-azure-6.11`pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-azure-6.11?arch=source&distro=noble`Other threats	Affected <6.11.0-1012.12~24.04.1	Fixed in 6.11.0-1012.12~24.04.1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTSlinux-azure-nvidia`pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-azure-nvidia?arch=source&distro=noble`Other threats	Affected <6.8.0-1014.15	Fixed in 6.8.0-1014.15
Ubuntu 24.04 LTSlinux-gcp`pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-gcp?arch=source&distro=noble`Other threats	Affected <6.8.0-1024.26	Fixed in 6.8.0-1024.26

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: IB/core: Fix ib_cache_setup_one error flow cleanup When ib_cache_update return an error, we exit ib_cache_setup_one instantly with no proper cleanup, even though before this we had already successfully done gid_table_setup_one, that results in the kernel WARN below. Do proper cleanup using gid_table_cleanup_one before returning the err in order to fix the issue. WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 922 at drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:806 gid_table_release_one+0x181/0x1a0 Modules linked in: CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 922 Comm: c_repro Not tainted 6.11.0-rc1+ #3 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:gid_table_release_one+0x181/0x1a0 Code: 44 8b 38 75 0c e8 2f cb 34 ff 4d 8b b5 28 05 00 00 e8 23 cb 34 ff 44 89 f9 89 da 4c 89 f6 48 c7 c7 d0 58 14 83 e8 4f de 21 ff <0f> 0b 4c 8b 75 30 e9 54 ff ff ff 48 8 3 c4 10 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 RSP: 0018:ffffc90002b835b0 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff811c8527 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff811c8534 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: ffff8881011b3d00 R08: ffff88810b3abe00 R09: 205d303839303631 R10: 666572207972746e R11: 72746e6520444947 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: ffff888106390000 R14: ffff8881011f2110 R15: 0000000000000001 FS: 00007fecc3b70800(0000) GS:ffff88813bd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000020000340 CR3: 000000010435a001 CR4: 00000000003706b0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ? show_regs+0x94/0xa0 ? __warn+0x9e/0x1c0 ? gid_table_release_one+0x181/0x1a0 ? report_bug+0x1f9/0x340 ? gid_table_release_one+0x181/0x1a0 ? handle_bug+0xa2/0x110 ? exc_invalid_op+0x31/0xa0 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 ? __warn_printk+0xc7/0x180 ? __warn_printk+0xd4/0x180 ? gid_table_release_one+0x181/0x1a0 ib_device_release+0x71/0xe0 ? __pfx_ib_device_release+0x10/0x10 device_release+0x44/0xd0 kobject_put+0x135/0x3d0 put_device+0x20/0x30 rxe_net_add+0x7d/0xa0 rxe_newlink+0xd7/0x190 nldev_newlink+0x1b0/0x2a0 ? __pfx_nldev_newlink+0x10/0x10 rdma_nl_rcv_msg+0x1ad/0x2e0 rdma_nl_rcv_skb.constprop.0+0x176/0x210 netlink_unicast+0x2de/0x400 netlink_sendmsg+0x306/0x660 __sock_sendmsg+0x110/0x120 ____sys_sendmsg+0x30e/0x390 ___sys_sendmsg+0x9b/0xf0 ? kstrtouint+0x6e/0xa0 ? kstrtouint_from_user+0x7c/0xb0 ? get_pid_task+0xb0/0xd0 ? proc_fail_nth_write+0x5b/0x140 ? __fget_light+0x9a/0x200 ? preempt_count_add+0x47/0xa0 __sys_sendmsg+0x61/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x50/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

GCVE source: db.gcve.eu
OSV ID: UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47693
Osv Schema Version: 1.7.0
Ecosystems: Ubuntu:16.04:LTS, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS-updates:20.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS:20.04:LTS, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Nvidia-BlueField:22.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Pro:Realtime:22.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS-preview:22.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS-updates:22.04:LTS, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Pro:Realtime:24.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS-updates:24.04:LTS
CVSS version: 3.1

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