{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-40955 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-40955 is a medium-severity memory corruption 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-2024-40955 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-40955 is a medium-severity memory corruption 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-2024-40955 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-2024-40955/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40955/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-40955","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40955/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-40955","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2024-40955","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40955","GHSA-53rx-4vfw-28rw","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel ext4","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can cause a kernel crash by setting an oversized ext4 group preallocation value via sysfs, leading to a slab-out-of-bounds read.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"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-787","name":"Out-of-bounds Write"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists()\n\nWe can trigger a slab-out-of-bounds with the following commands:\n\n    mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/$disk 10G\n    mount /dev/$disk /tmp/test\n    echo 2147483647 \u003e /sys/fs/ext4/$disk/mb_group_prealloc\n    echo test \u003e /tmp/test/file \u0026\u0026 sync\n\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists+0x8a/0x200 [ext4]\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff888121b9d0f0 by task kworker/u2:0/11\nCPU: 0 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/u2:0 Tainted: GL 6.7.0-next-20240118 #521\nCall Trace:\n dump_stack_lvl+0x2c/0x50\n kasan_report+0xb6/0xf0\n ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists+0x8a/0x200 [ext4]\n ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x19e9/0x2370 [ext4]\n ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x88a/0x1370 [ext4]\n ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x14f7/0x2390 [ext4]\n ext4_map_blocks+0x569/0xea0 [ext4]\n ext4_do_writepages+0x10f6/0x1bc0 [ext4]\n[...]\n==================================================================\n\nThe flow of issue triggering is as follows:\n\n// Set s_mb_group_prealloc to 2147483647 via sysfs\next4_mb_new_blocks\n  ext4_mb_normalize_request\n    ext4_mb_normalize_group_request\n      ac-\u003eac_g_ex.fe_len = EXT4_SB(sb)-\u003es_mb_group_prealloc\n  ext4_mb_regular_allocator\n    ext4_mb_choose_next_group\n      ext4_mb_choose_next_group_best_avail\n        mb_avg_fragment_size_order\n          order = fls(len) - 2 = 29\n        ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists\n          frag_list = \u0026sbi-\u003es_mb_avg_fragment_size[order]\n          if (list_empty(frag_list)) // Trigger SOOB!\n\nAt 4k block size, the length of the s_mb_avg_fragment_size list is 14,\nbut an oversized s_mb_group_prealloc is set, causing slab-out-of-bounds\nto be triggered by an attempt to access an element at index 29.\n\nAdd a new attr_id attr_clusters_in_group with values in the range\n[0, sbi-\u003es_clusters_per_group] and declare mb_group_prealloc as\nthat type to fix the issue. In addition avoid returning an order\nfrom mb_avg_fragment_size_order() greater than MB_NUM_ORDERS(sb)\nand reduce some useless loops.","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":"ext4: fix slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists()","id":"CVE-2024-40955","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"dmaengine: idxd: Fix possible Use-After-Free in irq_process_work_list","id":"CVE-2024-40956"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"net: do not leave a dangling sk pointer, when socket creation fails","id":"CVE-2024-40954"},"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 local attacker can cause a kernel crash by setting an oversized ext4 group preallocation value via sysfs, leading to a slab-out-of-bounds read.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40955/"}