{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-40952 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-40952 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 12 Jul 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-2024-40952 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-40952 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 12 Jul 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-2024-40952 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-2024-40952/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40952/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-40952","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40952/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-40952","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2024-40952","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40952","GHSA-pfpp-q6gh-6xmm","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40952"],"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":"low_privilege","summary":"A NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's OCFS2 filesystem allows local attackers to cause a system crash via specific ioctl operations.","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\nocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in ocfs2_journal_dirty()\n\nbdev-\u003ebd_super has been removed and commit 8887b94d9322 change the usage\nfrom bdev-\u003ebd_super to b_assoc_map-\u003ehost-\u003ei_sb.  This introduces the\nfollowing NULL pointer dereference in ocfs2_journal_dirty() since\nb_assoc_map is still not initialized.  This can be easily reproduced by\nrunning xfstests generic/186, which simulate no more credits.\n\n[  134.351592] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n...\n[  134.355341] RIP: 0010:ocfs2_journal_dirty+0x14f/0x160 [ocfs2]\n...\n[  134.365071] Call Trace:\n[  134.365312]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[  134.365524]  ? __die_body+0x1e/0x60\n[  134.365868]  ? page_fault_oops+0x13d/0x4f0\n[  134.366265]  ? __pfx_bit_wait_io+0x10/0x10\n[  134.366659]  ? schedule+0x27/0xb0\n[  134.366981]  ? exc_page_fault+0x6a/0x140\n[  134.367356]  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30\n[  134.367762]  ? ocfs2_journal_dirty+0x14f/0x160 [ocfs2]\n[  134.368305]  ? ocfs2_journal_dirty+0x13d/0x160 [ocfs2]\n[  134.368837]  ocfs2_create_new_meta_bhs.isra.51+0x139/0x2e0 [ocfs2]\n[  134.369454]  ocfs2_grow_tree+0x688/0x8a0 [ocfs2]\n[  134.369927]  ocfs2_split_and_insert.isra.67+0x35c/0x4a0 [ocfs2]\n[  134.370521]  ocfs2_split_extent+0x314/0x4d0 [ocfs2]\n[  134.371019]  ocfs2_change_extent_flag+0x174/0x410 [ocfs2]\n[  134.371566]  ocfs2_add_refcount_flag+0x3fa/0x630 [ocfs2]\n[  134.372117]  ocfs2_reflink_remap_extent+0x21b/0x4c0 [ocfs2]\n[  134.372994]  ? inode_update_timestamps+0x4a/0x120\n[  134.373692]  ? __pfx_ocfs2_journal_access_di+0x10/0x10 [ocfs2]\n[  134.374545]  ? __pfx_ocfs2_journal_access_di+0x10/0x10 [ocfs2]\n[  134.375393]  ocfs2_reflink_remap_blocks+0xe4/0x4e0 [ocfs2]\n[  134.376197]  ocfs2_remap_file_range+0x1de/0x390 [ocfs2]\n[  134.376971]  ? security_file_permission+0x29/0x50\n[  134.377644]  vfs_clone_file_range+0xfe/0x320\n[  134.378268]  ioctl_file_clone+0x45/0xa0\n[  134.378853]  do_vfs_ioctl+0x457/0x990\n[  134.379422]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x6e/0xd0\n[  134.379987]  do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x170\n[  134.380550]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n[  134.381231] RIP: 0033:0x7fa4926397cb\n[  134.381786] Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d bd 56 38 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 8d 56 38 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48\n[  134.383930] RSP: 002b:00007ffc2b39f7b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010\n[  134.384854] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 00007fa4926397cb\n[  134.385734] RDX: 00007ffc2b39f7f0 RSI: 000000004020940d RDI: 0000000000000003\n[  134.386606] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00111a82a4f015bb R09: 00007fa494221000\n[  134.387476] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000\n[  134.388342] R13: 0000000000f10000 R14: 0000558e844e2ac8 R15: 0000000000f10000\n[  134.389207]  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nFix it by only aborting transaction and journal in ocfs2_journal_dirty()\nnow, and leave ocfs2_abort() later when detecting an aborted handle,\ne.g. start next transaction. Also log the handle details in this case.","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":"ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in ocfs2_journal_dirty()","id":"CVE-2024-40952","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":"KVM: Fix a data race on last_boosted_vcpu in kvm_vcpu_on_spin()","id":"CVE-2024-40953"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in ocfs2_abort_trigger()","id":"CVE-2024-40951"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-07-12","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's OCFS2 filesystem allows local attackers to cause a system crash via specific ioctl operations.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40952/"}