# CVE-2024-45006: xhci: Fix Panther point NULL pointer deref at full-speed re-enumeration

> A local attacker with physical access can cause a kernel crash by triggering a NULL pointer dereference during USB device re-enumeration on specific hardware.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 4 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-48696, AZL-48807, BELL-CVE-2024-45006, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-45006, GHSA-gjp8-77gc-r4rr, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-45006

## What is CVE-2024-45006?

CVE-2024-45006 is a medium-severity 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.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xhci: Fix Panther point NULL pointer deref at full-speed re-enumeration

re-enumerating full-speed devices after a failed address device command
can trigger a NULL pointer dereference.

Full-speed devices may need to reconfigure the endpoint 0 Max Packet Size
value during enumeration. Usb core calls usb_ep0_reinit() in this case,
which ends up calling xhci_configure_endpoint().

On Panther point xHC the xhci_configure_endpoint() function will
additionally check and reserve bandwidth in software. Other hosts do
this in hardware

If xHC address device command fails then a new xhci_virt_device structure
is allocated as part of re-enabling the slot, but the bandwidth table
pointers are not set up properly here.
This triggers the NULL pointer dereference the next time usb_ep0_reinit()
is called and xhci_configure_endpoint() tries to check and reserve
bandwidth

[46710.713538] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[46710.713699] usb 3-1: Device not responding to setup address.
[46710.917684] usb 3-1: Device not responding to setup address.
[46711.125536] usb 3-1: device not accepting address 5, error -71
[46711.125594] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
[46711.125600] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[46711.125603] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[46711.125606] PGD 0 P4D 0
[46711.125610] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[46711.125615] CPU: 1 PID: 25760 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted 6.10.3_2 #1
[46711.125620] Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
[46711.125623] Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event [usbcore]
[46711.125668] RIP: 0010:xhci_reserve_bandwidth (drivers/usb/host/xhci.c

Fix this by making sure bandwidth table pointers are set up correctly
after a failed address device command, and additionally by avoiding
checking for bandwidth in cases like this where no actual endpoints are
added or removed, i.e. only context for default control endpoint 0 is
evaluated.

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-45006?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-45006?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-45006 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-45006 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-45006 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-45006 is a medium-severity 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-45006 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45006/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45006/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-45006
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45006
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-45006

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45006/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.