# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-40983"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:33:57.263Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:34:23.838Z"
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-2024-40983"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40983.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40983"
title: "tipc: force a dst refcount before doing decryption"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntipc: force a dst refcount before doing decryption\n\nAs it says in commit 3bc07321ccc2 (\"xfrm: Force a dst refcount before\nentering the xfrm type handlers\"):\n\n\"Crypto requests might return asynchronous. In this case we leave the\n rcu protected region, so force a refcount on the skb's destination\n entry before we enter the xfrm type input/output handlers.\"\n\nOn TIPC decryption path it has the same problem, and skb_dst_force()\nshould be called before doing decryption to avoid a possible crash.\n\nShuang reported this issue when this warning is triggered:\n\n  [] WARNING: include/net/dst.h:337 tipc_sk_rcv+0x1055/0x1ea0 [tipc]\n  [] Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W --------- - - 4.18.0-496.el8.x86_64+debug\n  [] Workqueue: crypto cryptd_queue_worker\n  [] RIP: 0010:tipc_sk_rcv+0x1055/0x1ea0 [tipc]\n  [] Call Trace:\n  [] tipc_sk_mcast_rcv+0x548/0xea0 [tipc]\n  [] tipc_rcv+0xcf5/0x1060 [tipc]\n  [] tipc_aead_decrypt_done+0x215/0x2e0 [tipc]\n  [] cryptd_aead_crypt+0xdb/0x190\n  [] cryptd_queue_worker+0xed/0x190\n  [] process_one_work+0x93d/0x17e0"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fc1b6d6de2208774efd2a20bf0daddb02d18b1e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3eb1b39627892c4e26cb0162b75725aa5fcc60c8"},{"version":"fc1b6d6de2208774efd2a20bf0daddb02d18b1e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"692803b39a36e63ac73208e0a3769ae6a2f9bc76"},{"version":"fc1b6d6de2208774efd2a20bf0daddb02d18b1e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"623c90d86a61e3780f682b32928af469c66ec4c2"},{"version":"fc1b6d6de2208774efd2a20bf0daddb02d18b1e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b57a4a2dc8746cea58a922ebe31b6aa629d69d93"},{"version":"fc1b6d6de2208774efd2a20bf0daddb02d18b1e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6808b41371670c51feea14f63ade211e78100930"},{"version":"fc1b6d6de2208774efd2a20bf0daddb02d18b1e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2ebe8f840c7450ecbfca9d18ac92e9ce9155e269"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"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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