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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-40947" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:31:52.810Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:34:10.711Z" 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-2024-40947" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40947.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40947" title: "ima: Avoid blocking in RCU read-side critical section" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nima: Avoid blocking in RCU read-side critical section\n\nA panic happens in ima_match_policy:\n\nBUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010\nPGD 42f873067 P4D 0\nOops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\nCPU: 5 PID: 1286325 Comm: kubeletmonit.sh\nKdump: loaded Tainted: P\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),\n BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015\nRIP: 0010:ima_match_policy+0x84/0x450\nCode: 49 89 fc 41 89 cf 31 ed 89 44 24 14 eb 1c 44 39\n 7b 18 74 26 41 83 ff 05 74 20 48 8b 1b 48 3b 1d\n f2 b9 f4 00 0f 84 9c 01 00 00 \u003c44\u003e 85 73 10 74 ea\n 44 8b 6b 14 41 f6 c5 01 75 d4 41 f6 c5 02 74 0f\nRSP: 0018:ff71570009e07a80 EFLAGS: 00010207\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000200\nRDX: ffffffffad8dc7c0 RSI: 0000000024924925 RDI: ff3e27850dea2000\nRBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffffabfce739\nR10: ff3e27810cc42400 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ff3e2781825ef970\nR13: 00000000ff3e2785 R14: 000000000000000c R15: 0000000000000001\nFS: 00007f5195b51740(0000)\nGS:ff3e278b12d40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000626d24002 CR4: 0000000000361ee0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n ima_get_action+0x22/0x30\n process_measurement+0xb0/0x830\n ? page_add_file_rmap+0x15/0x170\n ? alloc_set_pte+0x269/0x4c0\n ? prep_new_page+0x81/0x140\n ? simple_xattr_get+0x75/0xa0\n ? selinux_file_open+0x9d/0xf0\n ima_file_check+0x64/0x90\n path_openat+0x571/0x1720\n do_filp_open+0x9b/0x110\n ? page_counter_try_charge+0x57/0xc0\n ? files_cgroup_alloc_fd+0x38/0x60\n ? __alloc_fd+0xd4/0x250\n ? do_sys_open+0x1bd/0x250\n do_sys_open+0x1bd/0x250\n do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x1d0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca\n\nCommit c7423dbdbc9e (\"ima: Handle -ESTALE returned by\nima_filter_rule_match()\") introduced call to ima_lsm_copy_rule within a\nRCU read-side critical section which contains kmalloc with GFP_KERNEL.\nThis implies a possible sleep and violates limitations of RCU read-side\ncritical sections on non-PREEMPT systems.\n\nSleeping within RCU read-side critical section might cause\nsynchronize_rcu() returning early and break RCU protection, allowing a\nUAF to happen.\n\nThe root cause of this issue could be described as follows:\n|\tThread A\t|\tThread B\t|\n|\t\t\t|ima_match_policy\t|\n|\t\t\t| rcu_read_lock\t|\n|ima_lsm_update_rule\t|\t\t\t|\n| synchronize_rcu\t|\t\t\t|\n|\t\t\t| kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL)|\n|\t\t\t| sleep\t\t|\n==\u003e synchronize_rcu returns early\n| kfree(entry)\t\t|\t\t\t|\n|\t\t\t| entry = entry-\u003enext|\n==\u003e UAF happens and entry now becomes NULL (or could be anything).\n|\t\t\t| entry-\u003eaction\t|\n==\u003e Accessing entry might cause panic.\n\nTo fix this issue, we are converting all kmalloc that is called within\nRCU read-side critical section to use GFP_ATOMIC.\n\n[PM: fixed missing comment, long lines, !CONFIG_IMA_LSM_RULES case]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c4b035b1f036ddd53fbfced49046e586c5ad8a3e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6176a802c4bfb83bf7524591aa75f44a639a853"},{"version":"2d4bc60693c4206c64723e94ae5f7a04c0b8f18f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a38e02265c681b51997a264aaf743095e2ee400a"},{"version":"8008f1691c15f353f5a53dc5d450b8262cb57421","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c3906c3738562b1fedc6f1cfc81756a7cfefff0"},{"version":"c7423dbdbc9ecef7fff5239d144cad4b9887f4de","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"28d0ecc52f6c927d0e9ba70a4f2c1ea15453ee88"},{"version":"c7423dbdbc9ecef7fff5239d144cad4b9887f4de","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"58275455893066149e9f4df2223ab2fdbdc59f9c"},{"version":"c7423dbdbc9ecef7fff5239d144cad4b9887f4de","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a95c5bfbf02a0a7f5983280fe284a0ff0836c34"},{"version":"38d48fd224036717fcb3437e7af1314f6ebcd2d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"69c60b2a2dbb4887739d3a13297cc0dae3793f35","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.163","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.222"},{"version":"5.15.86","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.163"},{"version":"6.1.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.98"},{"version":"5.4.229","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"6.0.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"5.10.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.98","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.7","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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