{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-40905 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-40905 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 12 Jul 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-40905 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-40905 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 12 Jul 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-40905 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40905/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40905/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-40905","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40905/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-40905","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2024-40905","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40905","GHSA-p46c-p6jp-xfpq","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40905"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel IPv6","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel IPv6 FIB cleanup can cause a null pointer dereference, leading to a system crash.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":4.7,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: fix possible race in __fib6_drop_pcpu_from()\n\nsyzbot found a race in __fib6_drop_pcpu_from() [1]\n\nIf compiler reads more than once (*ppcpu_rt),\nsecond read could read NULL, if another cpu clears\nthe value in rt6_get_pcpu_route().\n\nAdd a READ_ONCE() to prevent this race.\n\nAlso add rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() because\nwe rely on RCU protection while dereferencing pcpu_rt.\n\n[1]\n\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000012: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000090-0x0000000000000097]\nCPU: 0 PID: 7543 Comm: kworker/u8:17 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc1-syzkaller-00013-g2bfcfd584ff5 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/02/2024\nWorkqueue: netns cleanup_net\n RIP: 0010:__fib6_drop_pcpu_from.part.0+0x10a/0x370 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:984\nCode: f8 48 c1 e8 03 80 3c 28 00 0f 85 16 02 00 00 4d 8b 3f 4d 85 ff 74 31 e8 74 a7 fa f7 49 8d bf 90 00 00 00 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 \u003c80\u003e 3c 28 00 0f 85 1e 02 00 00 49 8b 87 90 00 00 00 48 8b 0c 24 48\nRSP: 0018:ffffc900040df070 EFLAGS: 00010206\nRAX: 0000000000000012 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff89932e16\nRDX: ffff888049dd1e00 RSI: ffffffff89932d7c RDI: 0000000000000091\nRBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000007\nR10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000006 R12: ffff88807fa080b8\nR13: fffffbfff1a9a07d R14: ffffed100ff41022 R15: 0000000000000001\nFS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000001b32c26000 CR3: 000000005d56e000 CR4: 00000000003526f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n  __fib6_drop_pcpu_from net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:966 [inline]\n  fib6_drop_pcpu_from net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1027 [inline]\n  fib6_purge_rt+0x7f2/0x9f0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1038\n  fib6_del_route net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1998 [inline]\n  fib6_del+0xa70/0x17b0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:2043\n  fib6_clean_node+0x426/0x5b0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:2205\n  fib6_walk_continue+0x44f/0x8d0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:2127\n  fib6_walk+0x182/0x370 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:2175\n  fib6_clean_tree+0xd7/0x120 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:2255\n  __fib6_clean_all+0x100/0x2d0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:2271\n  rt6_sync_down_dev net/ipv6/route.c:4906 [inline]\n  rt6_disable_ip+0x7ed/0xa00 net/ipv6/route.c:4911\n  addrconf_ifdown.isra.0+0x117/0x1b40 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3855\n  addrconf_notify+0x223/0x19e0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3778\n  notifier_call_chain+0xb9/0x410 kernel/notifier.c:93\n  call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xbe/0x140 net/core/dev.c:1992\n  call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2030 [inline]\n  call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2044 [inline]\n  dev_close_many+0x333/0x6a0 net/core/dev.c:1585\n  unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x46d/0x19f0 net/core/dev.c:11193\n  unregister_netdevice_many net/core/dev.c:11276 [inline]\n  default_device_exit_batch+0x85b/0xae0 net/core/dev.c:11759\n  ops_exit_list+0x128/0x180 net/core/net_namespace.c:178\n  cleanup_net+0x5b7/0xbf0 net/core/net_namespace.c:640\n  process_one_work+0x9fb/0x1b60 kernel/workqueue.c:3231\n  process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3312 [inline]\n  worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf70 kernel/workqueue.c:3393\n  kthread+0x2c1/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:389\n  ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147\n  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ipv6: fix possible race in __fib6_drop_pcpu_from()","id":"CVE-2024-40905","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":7,"next":{"headline":"net/mlx5: Always stop health timer during driver removal","id":"CVE-2024-40906"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"USB: class: cdc-wdm: Fix CPU lockup caused by excessive log messages","id":"CVE-2024-40904"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-07-12","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API 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