# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-27079"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-01T13:04:58.511Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:09:59.000Z"
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-2024-27079"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-27079.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-27079"
title: "iommu/vt-d: Fix NULL domain on device release"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu/vt-d: Fix NULL domain on device release\n\nIn the kdump kernel, the IOMMU operates in deferred_attach mode. In this\nmode, info-\u003edomain may not yet be assigned by the time the release_device\nfunction is called. It leads to the following crash in the crash kernel:\n\n    BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000003c\n    ...\n    RIP: 0010:do_raw_spin_lock+0xa/0xa0\n    ...\n    _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x1b/0x30\n    intel_iommu_release_device+0x96/0x170\n    iommu_deinit_device+0x39/0xf0\n    __iommu_group_remove_device+0xa0/0xd0\n    iommu_bus_notifier+0x55/0xb0\n    notifier_call_chain+0x5a/0xd0\n    blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x41/0x60\n    bus_notify+0x34/0x50\n    device_del+0x269/0x3d0\n    pci_remove_bus_device+0x77/0x100\n    p2sb_bar+0xae/0x1d0\n    ...\n    i801_probe+0x423/0x740\n\nUse the release_domain mechanism to fix it. The scalable mode context\nentry which is not part of release domain should be cleared in\nrelease_device()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"586081d3f6b13ec9dfdfdf3d7842a688b376fa5e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"333fe86968482ca701c609af590003bcea450e8f"},{"version":"586081d3f6b13ec9dfdfdf3d7842a688b376fa5e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81e921fd321614c2ad8ac333b041aae1da7a1c6d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.8.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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