CVE-2024-40984
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
Important: 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-5.14.0-427.37.1.el9_4.aarch64.rpm |
| 8 | Fixed | kernel-doc-4.18.0-553.27.1.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 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Fixed | — |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6997
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/434c6b924e1f4c219aab2d9e05fe79c5364e37d3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/435ecc978c3d5d0c4e172ec5b956dc1904061d98
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6eca23100e9030725f69c1babacd58803f29ec8d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a83e1385b780d41307433ddbc86e3c528db031f0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae465109d82f4fb03c5adbe85f2d6a6a3d59124c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc5017c57f5eee80020c73ff8b67ba7f9fd08b1f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddc1f5f124479360a1fd43f73be950781d172239
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e21a4c9129c72fa54dd00f5ebf71219b41d43c04
- 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-2024:8870
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:8856
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40984.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-40984
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8856
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2266247
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2269183
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2275750
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2277168
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278262
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278350
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278387
CWEs
CWE-476
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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