# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-26878"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-04-17T10:27:35.838Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:39:00.741Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26878"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26878.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26878"
title: "quota: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nquota: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference\n\nBelow race may cause NULL pointer dereference\n\nP1\t\t\t\t\tP2\ndquot_free_inode\t\t\tquota_off\n\t\t\t\t\t  drop_dquot_ref\n\t\t\t\t\t   remove_dquot_ref\n\t\t\t\t\t   dquots = i_dquot(inode)\n  dquots = i_dquot(inode)\n  srcu_read_lock\n  dquots[cnt]) != NULL (1)\n\t\t\t\t\t     dquots[type] = NULL (2)\n  spin_lock(&dquots[cnt]-\u003edq_dqb_lock) (3)\n   ....\n\nIf dquot_free_inode(or other routines) checks inode's quota pointers (1)\nbefore quota_off sets it to NULL(2) and use it (3) after that, NULL pointer\ndereference will be triggered.\n\nSo let's fix it by using a temporary pointer to avoid this issue."
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