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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-47668"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-09T14:14:00.189Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:39:17.526Z"
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-2024-47668"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-47668.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47668"
title: "lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Fix rare race in __genradix_ptr_alloc()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlib/generic-radix-tree.c: Fix rare race in __genradix_ptr_alloc()\n\nIf we need to increase the tree depth, allocate a new node, and then\nrace with another thread that increased the tree depth before us, we'll\nstill have a preallocated node that might be used later.\n\nIf we then use that node for a new non-root node, it'll still have a\npointer to the old root instead of being zeroed - fix this by zeroing it\nin the cmpxchg failure path."
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