# CVE-2024-26762: cxl/pci: Skip to handle RAS errors if CXL.mem device is detached

> A missing check in the Linux kernel CXL driver causes a null pointer dereference and kernel crash when handling RAS errors on detached devices.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 3 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-26762, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26762, GHSA-5ccj-g76w-mp2v, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26762

## What is CVE-2024-26762?

CVE-2024-26762 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 3 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cxl/pci: Skip to handle RAS errors if CXL.mem device is detached

The PCI AER model is an awkward fit for CXL error handling. While the
expectation is that a PCI device can escalate to link reset to recover
from an AER event, the same reset on CXL amounts to a surprise memory
hotplug of massive amounts of memory.

At present, the CXL error handler attempts some optimistic error
handling to unbind the device from the cxl_mem driver after reaping some
RAS register values. This results in a "hopeful" attempt to unplug the
memory, but there is no guarantee that will succeed.

A subsequent AER notification after the memdev unbind event can no
longer assume the registers are mapped. Check for memdev bind before
reaping status register values to avoid crashes of the form:

 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffa00000195e9100
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 [...]
 RIP: 0010:__cxl_handle_ras+0x30/0x110 [cxl_core]
 [...]
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? __die+0x24/0x70
  ? page_fault_oops+0x82/0x160
  ? kernelmode_fixup_or_oops+0x84/0x110
  ? exc_page_fault+0x113/0x170
  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
  ? __pfx_dpc_reset_link+0x10/0x10
  ? __cxl_handle_ras+0x30/0x110 [cxl_core]
  ? find_cxl_port+0x59/0x80 [cxl_core]
  cxl_handle_rp_ras+0xbc/0xd0 [cxl_core]
  cxl_error_detected+0x6c/0xf0 [cxl_core]
  report_error_detected+0xc7/0x1c0
  pci_walk_bus+0x73/0x90
  pcie_do_recovery+0x23f/0x330

Longer term, the unbind and PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT behavior might
need to be replaced with a new PCI_ERS_RESULT_PANIC.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26762?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-26762?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-26762 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26762 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-26762 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-26762 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 3 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26762 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26762/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26762/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26762
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26762
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-26762

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