# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-40921"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:25:02.907Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:51:04.404Z"
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-2024-40921"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40921.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40921"
title: "net: bridge: mst: pass vlan group directly to br_mst_vlan_set_state"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: bridge: mst: pass vlan group directly to br_mst_vlan_set_state\n\nPass the already obtained vlan group pointer to br_mst_vlan_set_state()\ninstead of dereferencing it again. Each caller has already correctly\ndereferenced it for their context. This change is required for the\nfollowing suspicious RCU dereference fix. No functional changes\nintended."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8ca9a750fc711911ef616ceb627d07357b04545e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"09f4337c27f5bdeb8646a6db91488cc2f7d537ff"},{"version":"4488617e5e995a09abe4d81add5fb165674edb59","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6cc9e9a651b9861efa068c164ee62dfba68c6ca"},{"version":"e43dd2b1ec746e105b7db5f9ad6ef14685a615a4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d2dc02775fc0c4eacaee833a0637e5958884a8e5"},{"version":"3a7c1661ae1383364cd6092d851f5e5da64d476b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36c92936e868601fa1f43da6758cf55805043509"},{"version":"a2b01e65d9ba8af2bb086d3b7288ca53a07249ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.8.12","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1.93","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.95"},{"version":"6.6.33","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.35"},{"version":"6.9.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9.6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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