# 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-2024-39497"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:20:32.330Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:21:42.337Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
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-2024-39497"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-39497.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39497"
title: "drm/shmem-helper: Fix BUG_ON() on mmap(PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE)"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/shmem-helper: Fix BUG_ON() on mmap(PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE)\n\nLack of check for copy-on-write (COW) mapping in drm_gem_shmem_mmap\nallows users to call mmap with PROT_WRITE and MAP_PRIVATE flag\ncausing a kernel panic due to BUG_ON in vmf_insert_pfn_prot:\nBUG_ON((vma-\u003evm_flags & VM_PFNMAP) && is_cow_mapping(vma-\u003evm_flags));\n\nReturn -EINVAL early if COW mapping is detected.\n\nThis bug affects all drm drivers using default shmem helpers.\nIt can be reproduced by this simple example:\nvoid *ptr = mmap(0, size, PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, mmap_offset);\nptr[0] = 0;"
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