---
id: CVE-2024-35976
title: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  xsk: validate user input for XDP_{UMEM|COMPLETION}_FILL_RING

  syzbot reported an illegal copy in xsk_setsockopt() [1]

  Make sure to validate setsockopt() @optlen parame…
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  xsk: validate user input for XDP_{UMEM|COMPLETION}_FILL_RING

  syzbot reported an illegal copy in xsk_setsockopt() [1]

  Make sure to validate setsockopt() @optlen parame…
severity: high
cvss: 7.1
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-787
vendor: linux
product: linux_kernel
affected:
  - 'linux_kernel >= 4.18, < 4.19.317'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 4.20, < 5.4.278'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 5.5, < 5.10.216'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 5.11, < 5.15.156'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 5.16, < 6.1.87'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 6.2, < 6.6.28'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 6.7, < 6.8.7'
  - linux_kernel = 6.9
patched:
  - linux_kernel 6.8.7
published: '2024-05-20'
updated: '2026-10-15'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-15T01:18:15.357'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35976'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b45c25d60e38f5c2cb6823f886773a34323306d'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/237f3cf13b20db183d3706d997eedc3c49eacd44'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a523f14a3f53b46ff0e1fafd215b0bc5f6783aa'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2eb979fbb2479bcd7e049f2f9978b6590dd8a0e6'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a82984b3c6a7e8c7937dba6e857ddf829d149417'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b143e19dc28c3211f050f7848d87d9b0a170e10c'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/beb99266830520e15fbc6ca8cc5a5240d76851fd'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0a068de65d5b7358e9aff792716afa9333f3922'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b45c25d60e38f5c2cb6823f886773a34323306d'
    label: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/237f3cf13b20db183d3706d997eedc3c49eacd44'
    label: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a523f14a3f53b46ff0e1fafd215b0bc5f6783aa'
    label: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2eb979fbb2479bcd7e049f2f9978b6590dd8a0e6'
    label: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a82984b3c6a7e8c7937dba6e857ddf829d149417'
    label: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b143e19dc28c3211f050f7848d87d9b0a170e10c'
    label: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/beb99266830520e15fbc6ca8cc5a5240d76851fd'
    label: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0a068de65d5b7358e9aff792716afa9333f3922'
    label: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
  - url: 'https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html'
    label: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
  - url: 'https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html'
    label: 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e
  - url: 'https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-613116.html'
    label: 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00259
epssPercentile: 0.17529
ingestedAt: '2026-10-15T03:30:12.694Z'
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: total
  timestamp: '2024-05-20T14:37:56.972231Z'
---

## Overview

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

xsk: validate user input for XDP_{UMEM|COMPLETION}_FILL_RING

syzbot reported an illegal copy in xsk_setsockopt() [1]

Make sure to validate setsockopt() @optlen parameter.

[1]

 BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in copy_from_sockptr_offset include/linux/sockptr.h:49 [inline]
 BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in copy_from_sockptr include/linux/sockptr.h:55 [inline]
 BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in xsk_setsockopt+0x909/0xa40 net/xdp/xsk.c:1420
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888028c6cde3 by task syz-executor.0/7549

CPU: 0 PID: 7549 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.8.0-syzkaller-08951-gfe46a7dd189e #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
  dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:114
  print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
  print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488
  kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601
  copy_from_sockptr_offset include/linux/sockptr.h:49 [inline]
  copy_from_sockptr include/linux/sockptr.h:55 [inline]
  xsk_setsockopt+0x909/0xa40 net/xdp/xsk.c:1420
  do_sock_setsockopt+0x3af/0x720 net/socket.c:2311
  __sys_setsockopt+0x1ae/0x250 net/socket.c:2334
  __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2343 [inline]
  __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2340 [inline]
  __x64_sys_setsockopt+0xb5/0xd0 net/socket.c:2340
 do_syscall_64+0xfb/0x240
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75
RIP: 0033:0x7fb40587de69
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 e1 20 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fb40665a0c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000036
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fb4059abf80 RCX: 00007fb40587de69
RDX: 0000000000000005 RSI: 000000000000011b RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007fb4058ca47a R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000020001980 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000000b R14: 00007fb4059abf80 R15: 00007fff57ee4d08
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 7549:
  kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
  kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
  poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:370 [inline]
  __kasan_kmalloc+0x98/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:387
  kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:211 [inline]
  __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:3966 [inline]
  __kmalloc+0x233/0x4a0 mm/slub.c:3979
  kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:632 [inline]
  __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_setsockopt+0xd2f/0x1040 kernel/bpf/cgroup.c:1869
  do_sock_setsockopt+0x6b4/0x720 net/socket.c:2293
  __sys_setsockopt+0x1ae/0x250 net/socket.c:2334
  __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2343 [inline]
  __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2340 [inline]
  __x64_sys_setsockopt+0xb5/0xd0 net/socket.c:2340
 do_syscall_64+0xfb/0x240
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888028c6cde0
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8 of size 8
The buggy address is located 1 bytes to the right of
 allocated 2-byte region [ffff888028c6cde0, ffff888028c6cde2)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0000a31b00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888028c6c9c0 pfn:0x28c6c
anon flags: 0xfff00000000800(slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000800 ffff888014c41280 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
raw: ffff888028c6c9c0 0000000080800057 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x112cc0(GFP_USER|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY), pid 6648, tgid 6644 (syz-executor.0), ts 133906047828, free_ts 133859922223
  set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
  post_alloc_hook+0x1ea/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:1533
  prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:
---truncated---

## Affected

- `linux_kernel >= 4.18, < 4.19.317`
- `linux_kernel >= 4.20, < 5.4.278`
- `linux_kernel >= 5.5, < 5.10.216`
- `linux_kernel >= 5.11, < 5.15.156`
- `linux_kernel >= 5.16, < 6.1.87`
- `linux_kernel >= 6.2, < 6.6.28`
- `linux_kernel >= 6.7, < 6.8.7`
- `linux_kernel = 6.9`

## Remediation

Upgrade past the affected range:

- `linux_kernel 6.8.7`
