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Linux Linux — netfilter: nfnetlink: Initialise extack before use in ACKs
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U H H H 7.8 .0021 10.8 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux bf2ac490d28c21a349e9eef81edc45320fca4a3c – —
Linux 6.10 – 6.10.7
TIMELINE
Aug 21 Reserved by Linux
Aug 31 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2024-44945 (Linux). CVSS 7.1 → 7.8 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nfnetlink: Initialise extack before use in ACKs
Add missing extack initialisation when ACKing BATCH_BEGIN and BATCH_END.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| August 21, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| August 31, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2024-44945 (Linux). CVSS 7.1 → 7.8 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | bf2ac490d28c21a349e9eef81edc45320fca4a3c | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.10 | 6.10.7 |
About this page
This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2024-44945 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Wednesday, August 19, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.