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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-40960"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:32:01.939Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:46:04.558Z"
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-2024-40960"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40960.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40960"
title: "ipv6: prevent possible NULL dereference in rt6_probe()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: prevent possible NULL dereference in rt6_probe()\n\nsyzbot caught a NULL dereference in rt6_probe() [1]\n\nBail out if  __in6_dev_get() returns NULL.\n\n[1]\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00000000cb: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000658-0x000000000000065f]\nCPU: 1 PID: 22444 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-syzkaller-00383-gb8481381d4e2 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/02/2024\n RIP: 0010:rt6_probe net/ipv6/route.c:656 [inline]\n RIP: 0010:find_match+0x8c4/0xf50 net/ipv6/route.c:758\nCode: 14 fd f7 48 8b 85 38 ff ff ff 48 c7 45 b0 00 00 00 00 48 8d b8 5c 06 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 \u003c0f\u003e b6 14 02 48 89 f8 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 38 d0 7c 08 84 d2 0f 85 19\nRSP: 0018:ffffc900034af070 EFLAGS: 00010203\nRAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffc90004521000\nRDX: 00000000000000cb RSI: ffffffff8990d0cd RDI: 000000000000065c\nRBP: ffffc900034af150 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 000000000000000a\nR13: 1ffff92000695e18 R14: ffff8880244a1d20 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS:  00007f4844a5a6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000001b31b27000 CR3: 000000002d42c000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n  rt6_nh_find_match+0xfa/0x1a0 net/ipv6/route.c:784\n  nexthop_for_each_fib6_nh+0x26d/0x4a0 net/ipv4/nexthop.c:1496\n  __find_rr_leaf+0x6e7/0xe00 net/ipv6/route.c:825\n  find_rr_leaf net/ipv6/route.c:853 [inline]\n  rt6_select net/ipv6/route.c:897 [inline]\n  fib6_table_lookup+0x57e/0xa30 net/ipv6/route.c:2195\n  ip6_pol_route+0x1cd/0x1150 net/ipv6/route.c:2231\n  pol_lookup_func include/net/ip6_fib.h:616 [inline]\n  fib6_rule_lookup+0x386/0x720 net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:121\n  ip6_route_output_flags_noref net/ipv6/route.c:2639 [inline]\n  ip6_route_output_flags+0x1d0/0x640 net/ipv6/route.c:2651\n  ip6_dst_lookup_tail.constprop.0+0x961/0x1760 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1147\n  ip6_dst_lookup_flow+0x99/0x1d0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1250\n  rawv6_sendmsg+0xdab/0x4340 net/ipv6/raw.c:898\n  inet_sendmsg+0x119/0x140 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:853\n  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n  __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]\n  sock_write_iter+0x4b8/0x5c0 net/socket.c:1160\n  new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:497 [inline]\n  vfs_write+0x6b6/0x1140 fs/read_write.c:590\n  ksys_write+0x1f8/0x260 fs/read_write.c:643\n  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n  do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"52e1635631b342803aecaf81a362c1464e3da2e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0cda984e4e634b221dbf9642b8ecc5b4806b41e"},{"version":"52e1635631b342803aecaf81a362c1464e3da2e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d66fc4826127c82f99c4033380f8e93833d331c7"},{"version":"52e1635631b342803aecaf81a362c1464e3da2e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1ed9849fdf9a1a617129346b11d2094ca26828dc"},{"version":"52e1635631b342803aecaf81a362c1464e3da2e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"569c9d9ea6648d099187527b93982f406ddcebc0"},{"version":"52e1635631b342803aecaf81a362c1464e3da2e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"51ee2f7c30790799d0ec30c0ce0c743e58f046f2"},{"version":"52e1635631b342803aecaf81a362c1464e3da2e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"73e7c8ca6ad76f29b2c99c20845a6f3b203ff0c6"},{"version":"52e1635631b342803aecaf81a362c1464e3da2e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6eed6d3cd19ff3cfa83aeceed86da14abaf7417b"},{"version":"52e1635631b342803aecaf81a362c1464e3da2e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b86762dbe19a62e785c189f313cda5b989931f37"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.17"},{"version":"4.19.317","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.279","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"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"}]

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