# CVE-2024-58019: nvkm/gsp: correctly advance the read pointer of GSP message queue

> A flaw in the Linux kernel's NVIDIA GPU driver causes a NULL pointer dereference and kernel panic when processing specific GSP messages.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:** 27 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-58019, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58019, GHSA-25pf-8cvh-53fj, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2024-58019, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2024-58019, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58019

## What is CVE-2024-58019?

CVE-2024-58019 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Feb 2025. 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:

nvkm/gsp: correctly advance the read pointer of GSP message queue

A GSP event message consists three parts: message header, RPC header,
message body. GSP calculates the number of pages to write from the
total size of a GSP message. This behavior can be observed from the
movement of the write pointer.

However, nvkm takes only the size of RPC header and message body as
the message size when advancing the read pointer. When handling a
two-page GSP message in the non rollback case, It wrongly takes the
message body of the previous message as the message header of the next
message. As the "message length" tends to be zero, in the calculation of
size needs to be copied (0 - size of (message header)), the size needs to
be copied will be "0xffffffxx". It also triggers a kernel panic due to a
NULL pointer error.

[  547.614102] msg: 00000f90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 40 d7 18 fb 8b 00 00 00  ........@.......
[  547.622533] msg: 00000fa0: 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  ................
[  547.630965] msg: 00000fb0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff  ................
[  547.639397] msg: 00000fc0: ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
[  547.647832] nvkm 0000:c1:00.0: gsp: peek msg rpc fn:0 len:0x0/0xffffffffffffffe0
[  547.655225] nvkm 0000:c1:00.0: gsp: get msg rpc fn:0 len:0x0/0xffffffffffffffe0
[  547.662532] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
[  547.669485] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[  547.674624] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[  547.679755] PGD 0 P4D 0
[  547.682294] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[  547.686643] CPU: 22 PID: 322 Comm: kworker/22:1 Tainted: G            E      6.9.0-rc6+ #1
[  547.694893] Hardware name: ASRockRack 1U1G-MILAN/N/ROMED8-NL, BIOS L3.12E 09/06/2022
[  547.702626] Workqueue: events r535_gsp_msgq_work [nvkm]
[  547.707921] RIP: 0010:r535_gsp_msg_recv+0x87/0x230 [nvkm]
[  547.713375] Code: 00 8b 70 08 48 89 e1 31 d2 4c 89 f7 e8 12 f5 ff ff 48 89 c5 48 85 c0 0f 84 cf 00 00 00 48 81 fd 00 f0 ff ff 0f 87 c4 00 00 00 <8b> 55 10 41 8b 46 30 85 d2 0f 85 f6 00 00 00 83 f8 04 76 10 ba 05
[  547.732119] RSP: 0018:ffffabe440f87e10 EFLAGS: 00010203
[  547.737335] RAX: 0000000000000010 RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: 000000000000003f
[  547.744461] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffabe4480a8030 RDI: 0000000000000010
[  547.751585] RBP: 0000000000000010 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffabe440f87bb0
[  547.758707] R10: ffffabe440f87dc8 R11: 0000000000000010 R12: 0000000000000000
[  547.765834] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff9351df1e5000 R15: 0000000000000000
[  547.772958] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff93708eb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  547.781035] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  547.786771] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 00000003cc220002 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
[  547.793896] PKRU: 55555554
[  547.796600] Call Trace:
[  547.799046]  <TASK>
[  547.801152]  ? __die+0x20/0x70
[  547.804211]  ? page_fault_oops+0x75/0x170
[  547.808221]  ? print_hex_dump+0x100/0x160
[  547.812226]  ? exc_page_fault+0x64/0x150
[  547.816152]  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
[  547.820341]  ? r535_gsp_msg_recv+0x87/0x230 [nvkm]
[  547.825184]  r535_gsp_msgq_work+0x42/0x50 [nvkm]
[  547.829845]  process_one_work+0x196/0x3d0
[  547.833861]  worker_thread+0x2fc/0x410
[  547.837613]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[  547.841885]  kthread+0xdf/0x110
[  547.845031]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[  547.848775]  ret_from_fork+0x30/0x50
[  547.852354]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[  547.856097]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[  547.860019]  </TASK>
[  547.862208] Modules linked in: nvkm(E) gsp_log(E) snd_seq_dummy(E) snd_hrtimer(E) snd_seq(E) snd_timer(E) snd_seq_device(E) snd(E) soundcore(E) rfkill(E) qrtr(E) vfat(E) fat(E) ipmi_ssif(E) amd_atl(E) intel_rapl_msr(E) intel_rapl_common(E) amd64_edac(E) mlx5_ib(E) edac_mce_amd(E) kvm_amd
---truncated---

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-58019?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-58019?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-58019 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-58019 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-58019 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-58019 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Feb 2025. 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-2024-58019 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-2024-58019/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-58019/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-58019
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-58019
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-58019

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.
