{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42254 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-42254 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 8 Aug 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-2024-42254 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-42254 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 8 Aug 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-2024-42254 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-2024-42254/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42254/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-42254","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42254/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-42254","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2024-42254","GHSA-pj8g-xgcw-9p63","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42254"],"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 io_uring subsystem allows local attackers to cause 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\nio_uring: fix error pbuf checking\n\nSyz reports a problem, which boils down to NULL vs IS_ERR inconsistent\nerror handling in io_alloc_pbuf_ring().\n\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\nRIP: 0010:__io_remove_buffers+0xac/0x700 io_uring/kbuf.c:341\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n io_put_bl io_uring/kbuf.c:378 [inline]\n io_destroy_buffers+0x14e/0x490 io_uring/kbuf.c:392\n io_ring_ctx_free+0xa00/0x1070 io_uring/io_uring.c:2613\n io_ring_exit_work+0x80f/0x8a0 io_uring/io_uring.c:2844\n process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3231 [inline]\n process_scheduled_works+0xa2c/0x1830 kernel/workqueue.c:3312\n worker_thread+0x86d/0xd40 kernel/workqueue.c:3390\n kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389\n ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244","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":"io_uring: fix error pbuf checking","id":"CVE-2024-42254","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":"tpm: Use auth only after NULL check in tpm_buf_check_hmac_response()","id":"CVE-2024-42255"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"gpio: pca953x: fix pca953x_irq_bus_sync_unlock race","id":"CVE-2024-42253"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-08-08","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 io_uring subsystem allows local attackers to cause a system crash.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42254/"}