CVE-2024-40920 (GCVE-0-2024-40920)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:25 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:57
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Title
net: bridge: mst: fix suspicious rcu usage in br_mst_set_state
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bridge: mst: fix suspicious rcu usage in br_mst_set_state I converted br_mst_set_state to RCU to avoid a vlan use-after-free but forgot to change the vlan group dereference helper. Switch to vlan group RCU deref helper to fix the suspicious rcu usage warning.
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Linux Linux Affected: 8ca9a750fc711911ef616ceb627d07357b04545e , < caaa2129784a04dcade0ea92c12e6ff90bbd23d8 (git)
Affected: 4488617e5e995a09abe4d81add5fb165674edb59 , < 7caefa2771722e65496d85b62e1dc4442b7d1345 (git)
Affected: e43dd2b1ec746e105b7db5f9ad6ef14685a615a4 , < 406bfc04b01ee47e4c626f77ecc7d9f85135b166 (git)
Affected: 3a7c1661ae1383364cd6092d851f5e5da64d476b , < 546ceb1dfdac866648ec959cbc71d9525bd73462 (git)
Affected: a2b01e65d9ba8af2bb086d3b7288ca53a07249ac (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.1.93 , < 6.1.95 (semver)
Affected: 6.6.33 , < 6.6.35 (semver)
Affected: 6.9.3 , < 6.9.6 (semver)
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