# 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-2024-40945"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:25:19.164Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:45:43.208Z"
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-2024-40945"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40945.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40945"
title: "iommu: Return right value in iommu_sva_bind_device()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu: Return right value in iommu_sva_bind_device()\n\niommu_sva_bind_device() should return either a sva bond handle or an\nERR_PTR value in error cases. Existing drivers (idxd and uacce) only\ncheck the return value with IS_ERR(). This could potentially lead to\na kernel NULL pointer dereference issue if the function returns NULL\ninstead of an error pointer.\n\nIn reality, this doesn't cause any problems because iommu_sva_bind_device()\nonly returns NULL when the kernel is not configured with CONFIG_IOMMU_SVA.\nIn this case, iommu_dev_enable_feature(dev, IOMMU_DEV_FEAT_SVA) will\nreturn an error, and the device drivers won't call iommu_sva_bind_device()\nat all."
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