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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-40993"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:37:36.453Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:46:39.552Z"
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-2024-40993"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40993.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40993"
title: "netfilter: ipset: Fix suspicious rcu_dereference_protected()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: ipset: Fix suspicious rcu_dereference_protected()\n\nWhen destroying all sets, we are either in pernet exit phase or\nare executing a \"destroy all sets command\" from userspace. The latter\nwas taken into account in ip_set_dereference() (nfnetlink mutex is held),\nbut the former was not. The patch adds the required check to\nrcu_dereference_protected() in ip_set_dereference()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c0761d1f1ce1d5b85b5e82bbb714df12de1aa8c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3799d02ae4208af08e81310770d8754863a246a1"},{"version":"93b53c202b51a69e42ca57f5a183f7e008e19f83","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"72d9611968867cc4c5509e7708b1507d692b797a"},{"version":"0f1bb77c6d837c9513943bc7c08f04c5cc5c6568","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"523bed6489e089dd8040e72453fb79da47b144c2"},{"version":"390b353d1a1da3e9c6c0fd14fe650d69063c95d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"788d585e62f487bc4536d454937f737b70d39a33"},{"version":"2ba35b37f780c6410bb4bba9c3072596d8576702","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94dd411c18d7fff9e411555d5c662d29416501e4"},{"version":"90ae20d47de602198eb69e6cd7a3db3420abfc08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3fc09e1ca854bc234e007a56e0f7431f5e2defb5"},{"version":"4e7aaa6b82d63e8ddcbfb56b4fd3d014ca586f10","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ecd06277a7664f4ef018abae3abd3451d64e7a6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1.95","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.96"},{"version":"6.6.35","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.36"},{"version":"6.9.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9.7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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