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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-40952" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:31:56.160Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:23:00.265Z" 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-2024-40952" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40952.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40952" title: "ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in ocfs2_journal_dirty()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in ocfs2_journal_dirty()\n\nbdev-\u003ebd_super has been removed and commit 8887b94d9322 change the usage\nfrom bdev-\u003ebd_super to b_assoc_map-\u003ehost-\u003ei_sb. This introduces the\nfollowing NULL pointer dereference in ocfs2_journal_dirty() since\nb_assoc_map is still not initialized. This can be easily reproduced by\nrunning xfstests generic/186, which simulate no more credits.\n\n[ 134.351592] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n...\n[ 134.355341] RIP: 0010:ocfs2_journal_dirty+0x14f/0x160 [ocfs2]\n...\n[ 134.365071] Call Trace:\n[ 134.365312] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 134.365524] ? __die_body+0x1e/0x60\n[ 134.365868] ? page_fault_oops+0x13d/0x4f0\n[ 134.366265] ? __pfx_bit_wait_io+0x10/0x10\n[ 134.366659] ? schedule+0x27/0xb0\n[ 134.366981] ? exc_page_fault+0x6a/0x140\n[ 134.367356] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30\n[ 134.367762] ? ocfs2_journal_dirty+0x14f/0x160 [ocfs2]\n[ 134.368305] ? ocfs2_journal_dirty+0x13d/0x160 [ocfs2]\n[ 134.368837] ocfs2_create_new_meta_bhs.isra.51+0x139/0x2e0 [ocfs2]\n[ 134.369454] ocfs2_grow_tree+0x688/0x8a0 [ocfs2]\n[ 134.369927] ocfs2_split_and_insert.isra.67+0x35c/0x4a0 [ocfs2]\n[ 134.370521] ocfs2_split_extent+0x314/0x4d0 [ocfs2]\n[ 134.371019] ocfs2_change_extent_flag+0x174/0x410 [ocfs2]\n[ 134.371566] ocfs2_add_refcount_flag+0x3fa/0x630 [ocfs2]\n[ 134.372117] ocfs2_reflink_remap_extent+0x21b/0x4c0 [ocfs2]\n[ 134.372994] ? inode_update_timestamps+0x4a/0x120\n[ 134.373692] ? __pfx_ocfs2_journal_access_di+0x10/0x10 [ocfs2]\n[ 134.374545] ? __pfx_ocfs2_journal_access_di+0x10/0x10 [ocfs2]\n[ 134.375393] ocfs2_reflink_remap_blocks+0xe4/0x4e0 [ocfs2]\n[ 134.376197] ocfs2_remap_file_range+0x1de/0x390 [ocfs2]\n[ 134.376971] ? security_file_permission+0x29/0x50\n[ 134.377644] vfs_clone_file_range+0xfe/0x320\n[ 134.378268] ioctl_file_clone+0x45/0xa0\n[ 134.378853] do_vfs_ioctl+0x457/0x990\n[ 134.379422] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x6e/0xd0\n[ 134.379987] do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x170\n[ 134.380550] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n[ 134.381231] RIP: 0033:0x7fa4926397cb\n[ 134.381786] Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d bd 56 38 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 8d 56 38 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48\n[ 134.383930] RSP: 002b:00007ffc2b39f7b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010\n[ 134.384854] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 00007fa4926397cb\n[ 134.385734] RDX: 00007ffc2b39f7f0 RSI: 000000004020940d RDI: 0000000000000003\n[ 134.386606] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00111a82a4f015bb R09: 00007fa494221000\n[ 134.387476] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000\n[ 134.388342] R13: 0000000000f10000 R14: 0000558e844e2ac8 R15: 0000000000f10000\n[ 134.389207] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nFix it by only aborting transaction and journal in ocfs2_journal_dirty()\nnow, and leave ocfs2_abort() later when detecting an aborted handle,\ne.g. start next transaction. Also log the handle details in this case." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8887b94d93224e0ef7e1bc6369640e313b8b12f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0550ad87711f815b3d73e487ec58ca7d8f56edbc"},{"version":"8887b94d93224e0ef7e1bc6369640e313b8b12f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"72663d3e09091f431a0774227ca207c0358362dd"},{"version":"8887b94d93224e0ef7e1bc6369640e313b8b12f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"58f7e1e2c9e72c7974054c64c3abeac81c11f822"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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