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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-40957" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:31:59.747Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:34:16.301Z" 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-2024-40957" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40957.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40957" title: "seg6: fix parameter passing when calling NF_HOOK() in End.DX4 and End.DX6 behaviors" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nseg6: fix parameter passing when calling NF_HOOK() in End.DX4 and End.DX6 behaviors\n\ninput_action_end_dx4() and input_action_end_dx6() are called NF_HOOK() for\nPREROUTING hook, in PREROUTING hook, we should passing a valid indev,\nand a NULL outdev to NF_HOOK(), otherwise may trigger a NULL pointer\ndereference, as below:\n\n [74830.647293] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000090\n [74830.655633] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n [74830.657888] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n [74830.659500] PGD 0 P4D 0\n [74830.660450] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n ...\n [74830.664953] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2011\n [74830.666569] RIP: 0010:rpfilter_mt+0x44/0x15e [ipt_rpfilter]\n ...\n [74830.689725] Call Trace:\n [74830.690402] \u003cIRQ\u003e\n [74830.690953] ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df\n [74830.692020] ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df\n [74830.693095] ? ipt_do_table+0x286/0x710 [ip_tables]\n [74830.694275] ? __die_body.cold+0x8/0xd\n [74830.695205] ? page_fault_oops+0xac/0x140\n [74830.696244] ? exc_page_fault+0x62/0x150\n [74830.697225] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n [74830.698344] ? rpfilter_mt+0x44/0x15e [ipt_rpfilter]\n [74830.699540] ipt_do_table+0x286/0x710 [ip_tables]\n [74830.700758] ? ip6_route_input+0x19d/0x240\n [74830.701752] nf_hook_slow+0x3f/0xb0\n [74830.702678] input_action_end_dx4+0x19b/0x1e0\n [74830.703735] ? input_action_end_t+0xe0/0xe0\n [74830.704734] seg6_local_input_core+0x2d/0x60\n [74830.705782] lwtunnel_input+0x5b/0xb0\n [74830.706690] __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x63/0xa0\n [74830.707825] process_backlog+0x99/0x140\n [74830.709538] __napi_poll+0x2c/0x160\n [74830.710673] net_rx_action+0x296/0x350\n [74830.711860] __do_softirq+0xcb/0x2ac\n [74830.713049] do_softirq+0x63/0x90\n\ninput_action_end_dx4() passing a NULL indev to NF_HOOK(), and finally\ntrigger a NULL dereference in rpfilter_mt()-\u003erpfilter_is_loopback():\n\n static bool\n rpfilter_is_loopback(const struct sk_buff *skb,\n \t const struct net_device *in)\n {\n // in is NULL\n return skb-\u003epkt_type == PACKET_LOOPBACK ||\n \t in-\u003eflags & IFF_LOOPBACK;\n }" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7a3f5b0de3647c854e34269c3332d7a1e902901a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af90e3d73dc45778767b2fb6e7edd57ebe34380d"},{"version":"7a3f5b0de3647c854e34269c3332d7a1e902901a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec4d970b597ee5e17b0d8d73b7875197ce9a04d4"},{"version":"7a3f5b0de3647c854e34269c3332d7a1e902901a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d62df86c172033679d744f07d89e93e367dd11f6"},{"version":"7a3f5b0de3647c854e34269c3332d7a1e902901a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"561475d53aa7e4511ee7cdba8728ded81cf1db1c"},{"version":"7a3f5b0de3647c854e34269c3332d7a1e902901a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a3bc8d16e0aacd65c31aaf23a2bced3288a7779"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.162","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.36","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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