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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-49940"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-21T18:01:59.668Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:35:24.401Z"
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-2024-49940"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49940.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49940"
title: "l2tp: prevent possible tunnel refcount underflow"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nl2tp: prevent possible tunnel refcount underflow\n\nWhen a session is created, it sets a backpointer to its tunnel. When\nthe session refcount drops to 0, l2tp_session_free drops the tunnel\nrefcount if session-\u003etunnel is non-NULL. However, session-\u003etunnel is\nset in l2tp_session_create, before the tunnel refcount is incremented\nby l2tp_session_register, which leaves a small window where\nsession-\u003etunnel is non-NULL when the tunnel refcount hasn't been\nbumped.\n\nMoving the assignment to l2tp_session_register is trivial but\nl2tp_session_create calls l2tp_session_set_header_len which uses\nsession-\u003etunnel to get the tunnel's encap. Add an encap arg to\nl2tp_session_set_header_len to avoid using session-\u003etunnel.\n\nIf l2tpv3 sessions have colliding IDs, it is possible for\nl2tp_v3_session_get to race with l2tp_session_register and fetch a\nsession which doesn't yet have session-\u003etunnel set. Add a check for\nthis case."
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