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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-40948"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:31:53.478Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:22:55.621Z"
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-2024-40948"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40948.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40948"
title: "mm/page_table_check: fix crash on ZONE_DEVICE"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/page_table_check: fix crash on ZONE_DEVICE\n\nNot all pages may apply to pgtable check.  One example is ZONE_DEVICE\npages: they map PFNs directly, and they don't allocate page_ext at all\neven if there's struct page around.  One may reference\ndevm_memremap_pages().\n\nWhen both ZONE_DEVICE and page-table-check enabled, then try to map some\ndax memories, one can trigger kernel bug constantly now when the kernel\nwas trying to inject some pfn maps on the dax device:\n\n kernel BUG at mm/page_table_check.c:55!\n\nWhile it's pretty legal to use set_pxx_at() for ZONE_DEVICE pages for page\nfault resolutions, skip all the checks if page_ext doesn't even exist in\npgtable checker, which applies to ZONE_DEVICE but maybe more."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"df4e817b710809425d899340dbfa8504a3ca4ba5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"51897f99351fff7b57f4f141940fa93b4e90fd2b"},{"version":"df4e817b710809425d899340dbfa8504a3ca4ba5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84d3549d54f5ff9fa3281257be3019386f51d1a0"},{"version":"df4e817b710809425d899340dbfa8504a3ca4ba5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dec2382247860d2134c8d41e103e26460c099629"},{"version":"df4e817b710809425d899340dbfa8504a3ca4ba5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8bb592c2eca8fd2bc06db7d80b38da18da4a2f43"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.1.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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