{"id":"CVE-2024-53211","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-53211","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:56:30.966Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/l2tp: fix warning in l2tp_exit_net found by syzbot In l2tp's net exit handler, we check that an IDR is empty before destroying it: WARN_ON_ONCE(!idr_is_empty(&pn->l2tp_tunnel_idr));…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/l2tp: fix warning in l2tp_exit_net found by syzbot\n\nIn l2tp's net exit handler, we check that an IDR is empty before\ndestroying it:\n\n\tWARN_ON_ONCE(!idr_is_empty(&pn->l2tp_tunnel_idr));\n\tidr_destroy(&pn->l2tp_tunnel_idr);\n\nBy forcing memory allocation failures in idr_alloc_32, syzbot is able\nto provoke a condition where idr_is_empty returns false despite there\nbeing no items in the IDR. This turns out to be because the radix tree\nof the IDR contains only internal radix-tree nodes and it is this that\ncauses idr_is_empty to return false. The internal nodes are cleaned by\nidr_destroy.\n\nUse idr_for_each to check that the IDR is empty instead of\nidr_is_empty to avoid the problem.","published":"2024-12-27T14:15:29.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:08:36.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00189,"percentile":0.08443,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.19%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d066766c5f1252f98ff859265bcd1a5b52ac46c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a487cc8986d6dd75b60b59004f3bd2ea9b4dd541","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53211","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}