CVE-2024-40960
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
Moderate: kernel security update
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Linux kernel Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 6.10 | Affected | — |
| — | Affected | 4.19.317 |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
AlmaLinux Fixed 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Fixed | kernel-64k-devel-matched-5.14.0-427.42.1.el9_4.aarch64.rpm |
| 8 | Fixed | kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 6.9.7-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 6.9.7-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 6.9.7-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 5.10.221-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 6.1.99-1 |
Red Hat Fixed 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Fixed | — |
| 8 | Fixed | — |
Rocky Linux Fixed 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Fixed | — |
| 8 | Fixed | — |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8617
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ed9849fdf9a1a617129346b11d2094ca26828dc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51ee2f7c30790799d0ec30c0ce0c743e58f046f2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/569c9d9ea6648d099187527b93982f406ddcebc0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6eed6d3cd19ff3cfa83aeceed86da14abaf7417b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73e7c8ca6ad76f29b2c99c20845a6f3b203ff0c6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b86762dbe19a62e785c189f313cda5b989931f37
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d66fc4826127c82f99c4033380f8e93833d331c7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0cda984e4e634b221dbf9642b8ecc5b4806b41e
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-355557.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-613116.html
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:7000
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:7001
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40960.html
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:8617
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-40960
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7000
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2258012
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2258013
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2260038
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2265799
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2265838
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2266358
CWEs
CWE-476
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.