{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-40961 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-40961 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-2024-40961 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-40961 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-2024-40961 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-2024-40961/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40961/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-40961","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40961/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-40961","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2024-40961","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40961","GHSA-75c8-gq9f-5jv5","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40961"],"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 IPv6 routing code 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\nipv6: prevent possible NULL deref in fib6_nh_init()\n\nsyzbot reminds us that in6_dev_get() can return NULL.\n\nfib6_nh_init()\n    ip6_validate_gw(  \u0026idev  )\n        ip6_route_check_nh(  idev  )\n            *idev = in6_dev_get(dev); // can be NULL\n\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00000000bc: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000005e0-0x00000000000005e7]\nCPU: 0 PID: 11237 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-syzkaller-00249-gbe27b8965297 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/07/2024\n RIP: 0010:fib6_nh_init+0x640/0x2160 net/ipv6/route.c:3606\nCode: 00 00 fc ff df 4c 8b 64 24 58 48 8b 44 24 28 4c 8b 74 24 30 48 89 c1 48 89 44 24 28 48 8d 98 e0 05 00 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 \u003c42\u003e 0f b6 04 38 84 c0 0f 85 b3 17 00 00 8b 1b 31 ff 89 de e8 b8 8b\nRSP: 0018:ffffc900032775a0 EFLAGS: 00010202\nRAX: 00000000000000bc RBX: 00000000000005e0 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: ffffc90003277a54 RDI: ffff88802b3a08d8\nRBP: ffffc900032778b0 R08: 00000000000002fc R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 00000000000002fc R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88802b3a08b8\nR13: 1ffff9200064eec8 R14: ffffc90003277a00 R15: dffffc0000000000\nFS:  00007f940feb06c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000245e8000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n  ip6_route_info_create+0x99e/0x12b0 net/ipv6/route.c:3809\n  ip6_route_add+0x28/0x160 net/ipv6/route.c:3853\n  ipv6_route_ioctl+0x588/0x870 net/ipv6/route.c:4483\n  inet6_ioctl+0x21a/0x280 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:579\n  sock_do_ioctl+0x158/0x460 net/socket.c:1222\n  sock_ioctl+0x629/0x8e0 net/socket.c:1341\n  vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n  __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]\n  __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893\n  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n  do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\nRIP: 0033:0x7f940f07cea9","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: prevent possible NULL deref in fib6_nh_init()","id":"CVE-2024-40961","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":7,"next":{"headline":"btrfs: zoned: allocate dummy checksums for zoned NODATASUM writes","id":"CVE-2024-40962"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ipv6: prevent possible NULL dereference in rt6_probe()","id":"CVE-2024-40960"},"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 IPv6 routing code allows local attackers to cause a system crash.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40961/"}