# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-40996"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:37:38.454Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:51:21.401Z"
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-2024-40996"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40996.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40996"
title: "bpf: Avoid splat in pskb_pull_reason"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Avoid splat in pskb_pull_reason\n\nsyzkaller builds (CONFIG_DEBUG_NET=y) frequently trigger a debug\nhint in pskb_may_pull.\n\nWe'd like to retain this debug check because it might hint at integer\noverflows and other issues (kernel code should pull headers, not huge\nvalue).\n\nIn bpf case, this splat isn't interesting at all: such (nonsensical)\nbpf programs are typically generated by a fuzzer anyway.\n\nDo what Eric suggested and suppress such warning.\n\nFor CONFIG_DEBUG_NET=n we don't need the extra check because\npskb_may_pull will do the right thing: return an error without the\nWARN() backtrace."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8af60bb2b215f478b886f1d6d302fefa7f0b917d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dacc15e9cb248d19e5fc63c54bef0b9b55007761"},{"version":"1b2b26595bb09febf14c5444c873ac4ec90a5a77","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7f9644782c559635bd676c12c59389a34ed7c866"},{"version":"219eee9c0d16f1b754a8b85275854ab17df0850a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e90258303a358e88737afb5048bee9113beea3a"},{"version":"219eee9c0d16f1b754a8b85275854ab17df0850a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2bbe3e5a2f4ef69d13be54f1cf895b4658287080"},{"version":"fff05b2b004d9a8a2416d08647f3dc9068e357c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.1.86","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.96"},{"version":"6.6.27","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.36"},{"version":"6.8.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"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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