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CVE-2024-26923 is a race condition in the Linux kernel AF_UNIX socket garbage collector, in net/unix/garbage.c. During a connect() operation to a listening in-flight AF_UNIX SOCK_STREAM socket, an embryo socket may be enqueued while garbage collection is scanning socket children. When the embryo's peer carries file descriptors through SCM_RIGHTS, successive scan_children() passes can observe different child sets. This can incorrectly increase an object's in-flight reference count and leave a dangling pointer in gc_inflight_list, resulting in a use-after-free condition.
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Linux kernel AF_UNIX garbage-collector race condition involving connect().
A Linux kernel AF_UNIX socket garbage-collection race condition involving connect() and SCM_RIGHTS-carrying sockets. The race can corrupt inflight reference accounting and result in a dangling pointer in gc_inflight_list, affecting availability.
Race condition between Unix-domain socket garbage collection and connect operations.
Race condition between garbage collection and connect operations in Linux kernel AF_UNIX sockets.
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