# 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-2024-40902"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:20:43.508Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:33:54.564Z"
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-2024-40902"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40902.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40902"
title: "jfs: xattr: fix buffer overflow for invalid xattr"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njfs: xattr: fix buffer overflow for invalid xattr\n\nWhen an xattr size is not what is expected, it is printed out to the\nkernel log in hex format as a form of debugging.  But when that xattr\nsize is bigger than the expected size, printing it out can cause an\naccess off the end of the buffer.\n\nFix this all up by properly restricting the size of the debug hex dump\nin the kernel log."
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