{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-40978 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-40978 is a high-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-2024-40978 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-40978 is a high-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-2024-40978 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-2024-40978/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40978/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-40978","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40978/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-40978","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2024-40978","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40978","GHSA-xvxh-jmmc-4vxm","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40978"],"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 local attacker can crash the Linux kernel by reading a specific debugfs attribute due to improper memory handling in the qedi driver.","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":7.1,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-125","name":"Out-of-bounds Read"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qedi: Fix crash while reading debugfs attribute\n\nThe qedi_dbg_do_not_recover_cmd_read() function invokes sprintf() directly\non a __user pointer, which results into the crash.\n\nTo fix this issue, use a small local stack buffer for sprintf() and then\ncall simple_read_from_buffer(), which in turns make the copy_to_user()\ncall.\n\nBUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00007f4801111000\nPGD 8000000864df6067 P4D 8000000864df6067 PUD 864df7067 PMD 846028067 PTE 0\nOops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\nHardware name: HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10/ProLiant DL380 Gen10, BIOS U30 06/15/2023\nRIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0xcd/0x130\nRSP: 0018:ffffb7a18c3ffc40 EFLAGS: 00010202\nRAX: 00007f4801111000 RBX: 00007f4801111000 RCX: 000000000000000f\nRDX: 000000000000000f RSI: ffffffffc0bfd7a0 RDI: 00007f4801111000\nRBP: ffffffffc0bfd7a0 R08: 725f746f6e5f6f64 R09: 3d7265766f636572\nR10: ffffb7a18c3ffd08 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00007f4881110fff\nR13: 000000007fffffff R14: ffffb7a18c3ffca0 R15: ffffffffc0bfd7af\nFS:  00007f480118a740(0000) GS:ffff98e38af00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007f4801111000 CR3: 0000000864b8e001 CR4: 00000000007706e0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nPKRU: 55555554\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __die_body+0x1a/0x60\n ? page_fault_oops+0x183/0x510\n ? exc_page_fault+0x69/0x150\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n ? memcpy_orig+0xcd/0x130\n vsnprintf+0x102/0x4c0\n sprintf+0x51/0x80\n qedi_dbg_do_not_recover_cmd_read+0x2f/0x50 [qedi 6bcfdeeecdea037da47069eca2ba717c84a77324]\n full_proxy_read+0x50/0x80\n vfs_read+0xa5/0x2e0\n ? folio_add_new_anon_rmap+0x44/0xa0\n ? set_pte_at+0x15/0x30\n ? do_pte_missing+0x426/0x7f0\n ksys_read+0xa5/0xe0\n do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80\n ? __count_memcg_events+0x46/0x90\n ? count_memcg_event_mm+0x3d/0x60\n ? handle_mm_fault+0x196/0x2f0\n ? do_user_addr_fault+0x267/0x890\n ? exc_page_fault+0x69/0x150\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\nRIP: 0033:0x7f4800f20b4d","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":"scsi: qedi: Fix crash while reading debugfs attribute","id":"CVE-2024-40978","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":8,"next":{"headline":"wifi: ath12k: fix kernel crash during resume","id":"CVE-2024-40979"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"wifi: mt76: mt7921s: fix potential hung tasks during chip recovery","id":"CVE-2024-40977"},"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":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can crash the Linux kernel by reading a specific debugfs attribute due to improper memory handling in the qedi driver.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40978/"}