{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-44958 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-44958 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 Sep 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-2024-44958 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-44958 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 Sep 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-2024-44958 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-2024-44958/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-44958/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-44958","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-44958/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-44958","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2024-44958","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44958","GHSA-7m5m-jw3r-vxv2","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-44958","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-44958"],"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 logic error in the Linux kernel scheduler causes an unbalanced counter decrement during CPU offline failures, potentially triggering a kernel warning and system instability.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"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":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched/smt: Fix unbalance sched_smt_present dec/inc\n\nI got the following warn report while doing stress test:\n\njump label: negative count!\nWARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 38 at kernel/jump_label.c:263 static_key_slow_try_dec+0x9d/0xb0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __static_key_slow_dec_cpuslocked+0x16/0x70\n sched_cpu_deactivate+0x26e/0x2a0\n cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x3ad/0x10d0\n cpuhp_thread_fun+0x3f5/0x680\n smpboot_thread_fn+0x56d/0x8d0\n kthread+0x309/0x400\n ret_from_fork+0x41/0x70\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nBecause when cpuset_cpu_inactive() fails in sched_cpu_deactivate(),\nthe cpu offline failed, but sched_smt_present is decremented before\ncalling sched_cpu_deactivate(), it leads to unbalanced dec/inc, so\nfix it by incrementing sched_smt_present in the error path.","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":"sched/smt: Fix unbalance sched_smt_present dec/inc","id":"CVE-2024-44958","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"tracefs: Use generic inode RCU for synchronizing freeing","id":"CVE-2024-44959"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"xen: privcmd: Switch from mutex to spinlock for irqfds","id":"CVE-2024-44957"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-09-04","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":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-23","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A logic error in the Linux kernel scheduler causes an unbalanced counter decrement during CPU offline failures, potentially triggering a kernel warning and system instability.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-44958/"}