# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-42140"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-30T07:46:34.260Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:52:21.966Z"
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-2024-42140"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-42140.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42140"
title: "riscv: kexec: Avoid deadlock in kexec crash path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv: kexec: Avoid deadlock in kexec crash path\n\nIf the kexec crash code is called in the interrupt context, the\nmachine_kexec_mask_interrupts() function will trigger a deadlock while\ntrying to acquire the irqdesc spinlock and then deactivate irqchip in\nirq_set_irqchip_state() function.\n\nUnlike arm64, riscv only requires irq_eoi handler to complete EOI and\nkeeping irq_set_irqchip_state() will only leave this possible deadlock\nwithout any use. So we simply remove it."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"12f237200c169a8667cf9dca7a40df8d7917b9fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb80a7911218bbab2a69b5db7d2545643ab0073d"},{"version":"b17d19a5314a37f7197afd1a0200affd21a7227d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"653deee48a4682ea17a05b96fb6842795ab5943c"},{"version":"b17d19a5314a37f7197afd1a0200affd21a7227d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7692c9b6baacdee378435f58f19baf0eb69e4155"},{"version":"b17d19a5314a37f7197afd1a0200affd21a7227d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"484dd545271d02d1571e1c6b62ea7df9dbe5e692"},{"version":"b17d19a5314a37f7197afd1a0200affd21a7227d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c562ba719df570c986caf0941fea2449150bcbc4"},{"version":"7594956fec8902dfc18150bf1dca0940cd4ad025","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.82","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.163"},{"version":"6.0.12","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"5.15.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.98","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.9","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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