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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-40910" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:20:49.085Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:33:57.773Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40910" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40910.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40910" title: "ax25: Fix refcount imbalance on inbound connections" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nax25: Fix refcount imbalance on inbound connections\n\nWhen releasing a socket in ax25_release(), we call netdev_put() to\ndecrease the refcount on the associated ax.25 device. However, the\nexecution path for accepting an incoming connection never calls\nnetdev_hold(). This imbalance leads to refcount errors, and ultimately\nto kernel crashes.\n\nA typical call trace for the above situation will start with one of the\nfollowing errors:\n\n refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory.\n refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.\n\nAnd will then have a trace like:\n\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? show_regs+0x64/0x70\n ? __warn+0x83/0x120\n ? refcount_warn_saturate+0xb2/0x100\n ? report_bug+0x158/0x190\n ? prb_read_valid+0x20/0x30\n ? handle_bug+0x3e/0x70\n ? exc_invalid_op+0x1c/0x70\n ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1f/0x30\n ? refcount_warn_saturate+0xb2/0x100\n ? refcount_warn_saturate+0xb2/0x100\n ax25_release+0x2ad/0x360\n __sock_release+0x35/0xa0\n sock_close+0x19/0x20\n [...]\n\nOn reboot (or any attempt to remove the interface), the kernel gets\nstuck in an infinite loop:\n\n unregister_netdevice: waiting for ax0 to become free. Usage count = 0\n\nThis patch corrects these issues by ensuring that we call netdev_hold()\nand ax25_dev_hold() for new connections in ax25_accept(). This makes the\nlogic leading to ax25_accept() match the logic for ax25_bind(): in both\ncases we increment the refcount, which is ultimately decremented in\nax25_release()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9fd75b66b8f68498454d685dc4ba13192ae069b0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f4df9d6c8d4e4c818252b0419c2165d66eabd4eb"},{"version":"9fd75b66b8f68498454d685dc4ba13192ae069b0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52100fd74ad07b53a4666feafff1cd11436362d3"},{"version":"9fd75b66b8f68498454d685dc4ba13192ae069b0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a723a6c8d4831cc8e2c7b0c9f3f0c010d4671964"},{"version":"9fd75b66b8f68498454d685dc4ba13192ae069b0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c34fb0bd4a4237592c5ecb5b2e2531900c55774"},{"version":"c44a453ffe16eb08acdc6129ac4fa0192dbc0456","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"de55a1338e6a48ff1e41ea8db1432496fbe2a62b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"9e1e088a57c23251f1cfe9601bbd90ade2ea73b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b20a5ab0f5fb175750c6bafd4cf12daccf00c738","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"452ae92b99062d2f6a34324eaf705a3b7eac9f8b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"534156dd4ed768e30a43de0036f45dca7c54818f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.14.277","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.240","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.190","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.112","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.35","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"5.17.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.1.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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