# 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-2024-44968"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-09-04T18:56:45.456Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:32:55.258Z"
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-2024-44968"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-44968.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-44968"
title: "tick/broadcast: Move per CPU pointer access into the atomic section"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntick/broadcast: Move per CPU pointer access into the atomic section\n\nThe recent fix for making the take over of the broadcast timer more\nreliable retrieves a per CPU pointer in preemptible context.\n\nThis went unnoticed as compilers hoist the access into the non-preemptible\nregion where the pointer is actually used. But of course it's valid that\nthe compiler keeps it at the place where the code puts it which rightfully\ntriggers:\n\n  BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code:\n       caller is hotplug_cpu__broadcast_tick_pull+0x1c/0xc0\n\nMove it to the actual usage site which is in a non-preemptible region."
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