CVE-2024-26604 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "kobject: Remove redundant checks for whether ktype is NULL" This reverts commit 1b28cb81dab7c1eedc6034206f4e8d644046ad31. It is reported to cause problems, so revert it for now until the root cause can be found.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Linux	Linux Kernel

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

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References

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ca8fbabcceb8bfe44f7f50640092fd8f1de375c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f414d306320f837cc3df96cf52161cb8290fb1b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b746d52ce7bcac325a2fa264216ead85b7fbbfaa
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZOU3745CWCDZ7EMKMXB2OEEIB5Q3IWM/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26604
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26604

History

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZOU3745CWCDZ7EMKMXB2OEEIB5Q3IWM/

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2024-02-24T14:56:58.273Z

Updated: 2025-11-04T18:29:52.350Z

Reserved: 2024-02-19T14:20:24.129Z

Link: CVE-2024-26604

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-04T18:29:52.350Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-26T16:28:00.150

Modified: 2025-11-04T19:17:02.350

Link: CVE-2024-26604

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-02-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-26604 - Bugzilla

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