{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-36888 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-36888 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 30 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-36888 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-36888 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 30 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-36888 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-36888/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-36888/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-36888","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-36888/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-36888","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2024-36888","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36888","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36888"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel workqueue subsystem can cause a system crash when selecting a wake CPU for offline processors.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":6.2,"severity":"medium","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nworkqueue: Fix selection of wake_cpu in kick_pool()\n\nWith cpu_possible_mask=0-63 and cpu_online_mask=0-7 the following\nkernel oops was observed:\n\nsmp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...\nsmp: Brought up 1 node, 8 CPUs\nUnable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space\nFailing address: 0000000000000000 TEID: 0000000000000803\n[..]\n Call Trace:\narch_vcpu_is_preempted+0x12/0x80\nselect_idle_sibling+0x42/0x560\nselect_task_rq_fair+0x29a/0x3b0\ntry_to_wake_up+0x38e/0x6e0\nkick_pool+0xa4/0x198\n__queue_work.part.0+0x2bc/0x3a8\ncall_timer_fn+0x36/0x160\n__run_timers+0x1e2/0x328\n__run_timer_base+0x5a/0x88\nrun_timer_softirq+0x40/0x78\n__do_softirq+0x118/0x388\nirq_exit_rcu+0xc0/0xd8\ndo_ext_irq+0xae/0x168\next_int_handler+0xbe/0xf0\npsw_idle_exit+0x0/0xc\ndefault_idle_call+0x3c/0x110\ndo_idle+0xd4/0x158\ncpu_startup_entry+0x40/0x48\nrest_init+0xc6/0xc8\nstart_kernel+0x3c4/0x5e0\nstartup_continue+0x3c/0x50\n\nThe crash is caused by calling arch_vcpu_is_preempted() for an offline\nCPU. To avoid this, select the cpu with cpumask_any_and_distribute()\nto mask __pod_cpumask with cpu_online_mask. In case no cpu is left in\nthe pool, skip the assignment.\n\ntj: This doesn't fully fix the bug as CPUs can still go down between picking\nthe target CPU and the wake call. Fixing that likely requires adding\ncpu_online() test to either the sched or s390 arch code. However, regardless\nof how that is fixed, workqueue shouldn't be picking a CPU which isn't\nonline as that would result in unpredictable and worse behavior.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"workqueue: Fix selection of wake_cpu in kick_pool()","id":"CVE-2024-36888","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"mptcp: ensure snd_nxt is properly initialized on connect","id":"CVE-2024-36889"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"e1000e: change usleep_range to udelay in PHY mdic access","id":"CVE-2024-36887"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-05-30","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel workqueue subsystem can cause a system crash when selecting a wake CPU for offline processors.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-36888/"}