{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-40959 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-40959 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-2024-40959 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-40959 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-2024-40959 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-2024-40959/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40959/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-40959","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40959/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-40959","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2024-40959","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40959","GHSA-68wq-8vpf-v9v8","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40959"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's IPv6 XFRM subsystem allows local attackers to cause a system crash.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/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\nxfrm6: check ip6_dst_idev() return value in xfrm6_get_saddr()\n\nip6_dst_idev() can return NULL, xfrm6_get_saddr() must act accordingly.\n\nsyzbot reported:\n\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\nCPU: 1 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-syzkaller-00383-gb8481381d4e2 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/02/2024\nWorkqueue: wg-kex-wg1 wg_packet_handshake_send_worker\n RIP: 0010:xfrm6_get_saddr+0x93/0x130 net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c:64\nCode: df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 97 00 00 00 4c 8b ab d8 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 89 ea 48 c1 ea 03 \u003c80\u003e 3c 02 00 0f 85 86 00 00 00 4d 8b 6d 00 e8 ca 13 47 01 48 b8 00\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90000117378 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88807b079dc0 RCX: ffffffff89a0d6d7\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff89a0d6e9 RDI: ffff88807b079e98\nRBP: ffff88807ad73248 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: fffffffffffff000\nR10: ffff88807b079dc0 R11: 0000000000000007 R12: ffffc90000117480\nR13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007f4586d00440 CR3: 0000000079042000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n  xfrm_get_saddr net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2452 [inline]\n  xfrm_tmpl_resolve_one net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2481 [inline]\n  xfrm_tmpl_resolve+0xa26/0xf10 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2541\n  xfrm_resolve_and_create_bundle+0x140/0x2570 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2835\n  xfrm_bundle_lookup net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3070 [inline]\n  xfrm_lookup_with_ifid+0x4d1/0x1e60 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3201\n  xfrm_lookup net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3298 [inline]\n  xfrm_lookup_route+0x3b/0x200 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3309\n  ip6_dst_lookup_flow+0x15c/0x1d0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1256\n  send6+0x611/0xd20 drivers/net/wireguard/socket.c:139\n  wg_socket_send_skb_to_peer+0xf9/0x220 drivers/net/wireguard/socket.c:178\n  wg_socket_send_buffer_to_peer+0x12b/0x190 drivers/net/wireguard/socket.c:200\n  wg_packet_send_handshake_initiation+0x227/0x360 drivers/net/wireguard/send.c:40\n  wg_packet_handshake_send_worker+0x1c/0x30 drivers/net/wireguard/send.c:51\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":"xfrm6: check ip6_dst_idev() return value in xfrm6_get_saddr()","id":"CVE-2024-40959","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"ipv6: prevent possible NULL dereference in rt6_probe()","id":"CVE-2024-40960"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"netns: Make get_net_ns() handle zero refcount net","id":"CVE-2024-40958"},"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 terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's IPv6 XFRM subsystem allows local attackers to cause a system crash.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40959/"}