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CVE-2024-35908

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-35908 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel, specifically within its TLS implementation. It involves a resource leak where a reference to a 'psock' object is acquired but not released if a subsequent locking operation fails during the tls_sw_recvmsg function. This local vulnerability, requiring low privileges and complexity, could lead to a denial of service (A:H). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 6.0, < 6.1.85CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.2, < 6.6.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.7, < 6.8.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
11.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 52nd percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-rt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2024-35908Low

kernel: tls: get psock ref after taking rxlock to avoid leak

May 19, 2024

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/30fabe50a7ace3e9d57cf7f9288f33ea408491c8
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/417e91e856099e9b8a42a2520e2255e6afe024be
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/b565d294e3d5aa809566a4d819835da11997d8b3
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/f1b7f14130d782433bc98c1e1e41ce6b4d4c3096
Patch