{"cve":"CVE-2024-44937","nvd":{"published":"2024-08-26T11:15:05.753","modified":"2026-06-17T07:53:15.830","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/x86: intel-vbtn: Protect ACPI notify handler against recursion\n\nSince commit e2ffcda16290 (\"ACPI: OSL: Allow Notify () handlers to run on\nall CPUs\") ACPI notify handlers like the intel-vbtn notify_handler() may\nrun on multiple CPU cores racing with themselves.\n\nThis race gets hit on Dell Venue 7140 tablets when undocking from\nthe keyboard, causing the handler to try and register priv->switches_dev\ntwice, as can be seen from the dev_info() message getting logged twice:\n\n[ 83.861800] intel-vbtn INT33D6:00: Registering Intel Virtual Switches input-dev after receiving a switch event\n[ 83.861858] input: Intel Virtual Switches as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.0/PNP0C09:00/INT33D6:00/input/input17\n[ 83.861865] intel-vbtn INT33D6:00: Registering Intel Virtual Switches input-dev after receiving a switch event\n\nAfter which things go seriously wrong:\n[ 83.861872] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.0/PNP0C09:00/INT33D6:00/input/input17'\n...\n[ 83.861967] kobject: kobject_add_internal failed for input17 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.\n[ 83.877338] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018\n...\n\nProtect intel-vbtn notify_handler() from racing with itself with a mutex\nto fix this.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-476"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c9618a3b6ea94cf7bdff7702aca8bf2d777d97b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e075c3b13a0a142dcd3151b25d29a24f31b7b640"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:54:16.205165117+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-44937","score":0.00182,"percentile":0.07792,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}