# CVE-2024-53048: ice: fix crash on probe for DPLL enabled E810 LOM

> A null pointer dereference in the ice driver causes a kernel crash during probe on specific DPLL-enabled E810 hardware, leading to denial of service.

- **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:** 19 Nov 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-53048, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53048, GHSA-r6fq-j5gx-rmcc, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53048

## What is CVE-2024-53048?

CVE-2024-53048 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Nov 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:

ice: fix crash on probe for DPLL enabled E810 LOM

The E810 Lan On Motherboard (LOM) design is vendor specific. Intel
provides the reference design, but it is up to vendor on the final
product design. For some cases, like Linux DPLL support, the static
values defined in the driver does not reflect the actual LOM design.
Current implementation of dpll pins is causing the crash on probe
of the ice driver for such DPLL enabled E810 LOM designs:

WARNING: (...) at drivers/dpll/dpll_core.c:495 dpll_pin_get+0x2c4/0x330
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? __warn+0x83/0x130
 ? dpll_pin_get+0x2c4/0x330
 ? report_bug+0x1b7/0x1d0
 ? handle_bug+0x42/0x70
 ? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x70
 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
 ? dpll_pin_get+0x117/0x330
 ? dpll_pin_get+0x2c4/0x330
 ? dpll_pin_get+0x117/0x330
 ice_dpll_get_pins.isra.0+0x52/0xe0 [ice]
...

The number of dpll pins enabled by LOM vendor is greater than expected
and defined in the driver for Intel designed NICs, which causes the crash.

Prevent the crash and allow generic pin initialization within Linux DPLL
subsystem for DPLL enabled E810 LOM designs.

Newly designed solution for described issue will be based on "per HW
design" pin initialization. It requires pin information dynamically
acquired from the firmware and is already in progress, planned for
next-tree only.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-53048?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-53048?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-53048 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-53048 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-53048 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-53048 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Nov 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-2024-53048 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-2024-53048/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53048/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53048
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53048
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-53048

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53048/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.