{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42079 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-42079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 29 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-2024-42079 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-42079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 29 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-2024-42079 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-2024-42079/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42079/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-42079","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42079/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-42079","record":{"aliases":["AZL-47118","AZL-47166","BELL-CVE-2024-42079","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42079","GHSA-7wph-5wjx-7rgv","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-42079","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2024-42079","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42079"],"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 race condition in the Linux kernel GFS2 filesystem can cause a NULL pointer dereference, leading to a system crash.","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\ngfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush\n\nIn gfs2_jindex_free(), set sdp-\u003esd_jdesc to NULL under the log flush\nlock to provide exclusion against gfs2_log_flush().\n\nIn gfs2_log_flush(), check if sdp-\u003esd_jdesc is non-NULL before\ndereferencing it.  Otherwise, we could run into a NULL pointer\ndereference when outstanding glock work races with an unmount\n(glock_work_func -\u003e run_queue -\u003e do_xmote -\u003e inode_go_sync -\u003e\ngfs2_log_flush).","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":"gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush","id":"CVE-2024-42079","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":5,"next":{"headline":"RDMA/restrack: Fix potential invalid address access","id":"CVE-2024-42080"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"nfsd: initialise nfsd_info.mutex early.","id":"CVE-2024-42078"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-07-29","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 race condition in the Linux kernel GFS2 filesystem can cause a NULL pointer dereference, leading to a system crash.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42079/"}