{"id":"CVE-2024-40939","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-40939","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:56:00.561Z","title":"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…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: wwan: iosm: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of region creation fail\n\nIn case of region creation fail in ipc_devlink_create_region(), previously\ncreated regions delete process starts from tainted pointer which actually\nholds error code value.\nFix this bug by decreasing region index before delete.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.","published":"2024-07-12T13:15:16.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:46:55.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-416"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00261,"percentile":0.17724,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.26%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/040d9384870386eb5dc55472ac573ac7756b2050","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37a438704d19bdbe246d51d3749b6b3a8fe65afd","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0c9a26435413b81799047a7be53255640432547","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe394d59cdae81389dbf995e87c83c1acd120597","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/040d9384870386eb5dc55472ac573ac7756b2050","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37a438704d19bdbe246d51d3749b6b3a8fe65afd","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0c9a26435413b81799047a7be53255640432547","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe394d59cdae81389dbf995e87c83c1acd120597","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40939","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}