# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-44937"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-08-26T10:11:30.234Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:32:21.545Z"
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-2024-44937"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-44937.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-44937"
title: "platform/x86: intel-vbtn: Protect ACPI notify handler against recursion"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/x86: intel-vbtn: Protect ACPI notify handler against recursion\n\nSince commit e2ffcda16290 (\"ACPI: OSL: Allow Notify () handlers to run on\nall CPUs\") ACPI notify handlers like the intel-vbtn notify_handler() may\nrun on multiple CPU cores racing with themselves.\n\nThis race gets hit on Dell Venue 7140 tablets when undocking from\nthe keyboard, causing the handler to try and register priv-\u003eswitches_dev\ntwice, as can be seen from the dev_info() message getting logged twice:\n\n[ 83.861800] intel-vbtn INT33D6:00: Registering Intel Virtual Switches input-dev after receiving a switch event\n[ 83.861858] input: Intel Virtual Switches as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.0/PNP0C09:00/INT33D6:00/input/input17\n[ 83.861865] intel-vbtn INT33D6:00: Registering Intel Virtual Switches input-dev after receiving a switch event\n\nAfter which things go seriously wrong:\n[ 83.861872] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.0/PNP0C09:00/INT33D6:00/input/input17'\n...\n[ 83.861967] kobject: kobject_add_internal failed for input17 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.\n[ 83.877338] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018\n...\n\nProtect intel-vbtn notify_handler() from racing with itself with a mutex\nto fix this."
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