{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38608 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-38608 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jun 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-2024-38608 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-38608 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jun 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-2024-38608 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-2024-38608/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38608/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-38608","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38608/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-38608","record":{"aliases":["AZL-48210","AZL-48285","BELL-CVE-2024-38608","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38608","GHSA-rh54-rh9r-p3ph","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-38608","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2024-38608","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2024-38608","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38608"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A null pointer dereference in the mlx5e network driver can cause a kernel crash and memory leak during device suspension.","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":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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\nnet/mlx5e: Fix netif state handling\n\nmlx5e_suspend cleans resources only if netif_device_present() returns\ntrue. However, mlx5e_resume changes the state of netif, via\nmlx5e_nic_enable, only if reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED.\nIn the below case, the above leads to NULL-ptr Oops[1] and memory\nleaks:\n\nmlx5e_probe\n _mlx5e_resume\n  mlx5e_attach_netdev\n   mlx5e_nic_enable  \u003c-- netdev not reg, not calling netif_device_attach()\n  register_netdev \u003c-- failed for some reason.\nERROR_FLOW:\n _mlx5e_suspend \u003c-- netif_device_present return false, resources aren't freed :(\n\nHence, clean resources in this case as well.\n\n[1]\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: 0010 [#1] SMP\nCPU: 2 PID: 9345 Comm: test-ovs-ct-gen Not tainted 6.5.0_for_upstream_min_debug_2023_09_05_16_01 #1\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:0x0\nCode: Unable to access opcode bytes at0xffffffffffffffd6.\nRSP: 0018:ffff888178aaf758 EFLAGS: 00010246\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __die+0x20/0x60\n ? page_fault_oops+0x14c/0x3c0\n ? exc_page_fault+0x75/0x140\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n notifier_call_chain+0x35/0xb0\n blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x3d/0x60\n mlx5_blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x22/0x30 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_core_uplink_netdev_event_replay+0x3e/0x60 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_mdev_netdev_track+0x53/0x60 [mlx5_ib]\n mlx5_ib_roce_init+0xc3/0x340 [mlx5_ib]\n __mlx5_ib_add+0x34/0xd0 [mlx5_ib]\n mlx5r_probe+0xe1/0x210 [mlx5_ib]\n ? auxiliary_match_id+0x6a/0x90\n auxiliary_bus_probe+0x38/0x80\n ? driver_sysfs_add+0x51/0x80\n really_probe+0xc9/0x3e0\n ? driver_probe_device+0x90/0x90\n __driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160\n driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90\n __device_attach_driver+0x7d/0x100\n bus_for_each_drv+0x80/0xd0\n __device_attach+0xbc/0x1f0\n bus_probe_device+0x86/0xa0\n device_add+0x637/0x840\n __auxiliary_device_add+0x3b/0xa0\n add_adev+0xc9/0x140 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked+0x22a/0x310 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_register_device+0x53/0xa0 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_init_one_devl_locked+0x5c4/0x9c0 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_init_one+0x3b/0x60 [mlx5_core]\n probe_one+0x44c/0x730 [mlx5_core]\n local_pci_probe+0x3e/0x90\n pci_device_probe+0xbf/0x210\n ? kernfs_create_link+0x5d/0xa0\n ? sysfs_do_create_link_sd+0x60/0xc0\n really_probe+0xc9/0x3e0\n ? driver_probe_device+0x90/0x90\n __driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160\n driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90\n __device_attach_driver+0x7d/0x100\n bus_for_each_drv+0x80/0xd0\n __device_attach+0xbc/0x1f0\n pci_bus_add_device+0x54/0x80\n pci_iov_add_virtfn+0x2e6/0x320\n sriov_enable+0x208/0x420\n mlx5_core_sriov_configure+0x9e/0x200 [mlx5_core]\n sriov_numvfs_store+0xae/0x1a0\n kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x10c/0x1a0\n vfs_write+0x291/0x3c0\n ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0\n do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n CR2: 0000000000000000\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000  ]---","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":"net/mlx5e: Fix netif state handling","id":"CVE-2024-38608","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":"wifi: mt76: connac: check for null before dereferencing","id":"CVE-2024-38609"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"macintosh/via-macii: Fix \"BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context\"","id":"CVE-2024-38607"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-06-19","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":"2026-10-21","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the mlx5e network driver can cause a kernel crash and memory leak during device suspension.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38608/"}