# 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-2024-56637"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-12-27T15:02:39.876Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:47.339Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
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-2024-56637"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56637.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56637"
title: "netfilter: ipset: Hold module reference while requesting a module"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: ipset: Hold module reference while requesting a module\n\nUser space may unload ip_set.ko while it is itself requesting a set type\nbackend module, leading to a kernel crash. The race condition may be\nprovoked by inserting an mdelay() right after the nfnl_unlock() call."
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