CVE-2024-40939net: wwan: iosm: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of region creation fail
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.26%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 82% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: wwan: iosm: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of region creation fail In case of region creation fail in ipc_devlink_create_region(), previously created regions delete process starts from tainted pointer which actually holds error code value. Fix this bug by decreasing region index before delete. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
Published
- 22 months later
· 22 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.26% · top 82% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
- affected 4dcd183fbd67b105decc8be262311937730ccdbf – < fe394d59cdae81389dbf995e87c83c1acd120597
- affected 4dcd183fbd67b105decc8be262311937730ccdbf – < 040d9384870386eb5dc55472ac573ac7756b2050
- affected 4dcd183fbd67b105decc8be262311937730ccdbf – < 37a438704d19bdbe246d51d3749b6b3a8fe65afd
- affected 4dcd183fbd67b105decc8be262311937730ccdbf – < b0c9a26435413b81799047a7be53255640432547
- affected 5.16
- unaffected < 5.16
- unaffected 6.1.95 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.35 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.9.6 – ≤ 6.9.*
- unaffected 6.10 – ≤ *
References
References5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe394d59cdae81389dbf995e87c83c1acd120597 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/040d9384870386eb5dc55472ac573ac7756b2050 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37a438704d19bdbe246d51d3749b6b3a8fe65afd (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0c9a26435413b81799047a7be53255640432547 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-38827 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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