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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-40974" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:32:11.417Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:34:20.623Z" 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-2024-40974" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40974.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40974" title: "powerpc/pseries: Enforce hcall result buffer validity and size" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/pseries: Enforce hcall result buffer validity and size\n\nplpar_hcall(), plpar_hcall9(), and related functions expect callers to\nprovide valid result buffers of certain minimum size. Currently this\nis communicated only through comments in the code and the compiler has\nno idea.\n\nFor example, if I write a bug like this:\n\n long retbuf[PLPAR_HCALL_BUFSIZE]; // should be PLPAR_HCALL9_BUFSIZE\n plpar_hcall9(H_ALLOCATE_VAS_WINDOW, retbuf, ...);\n\nThis compiles with no diagnostics emitted, but likely results in stack\ncorruption at runtime when plpar_hcall9() stores results past the end\nof the array. (To be clear this is a contrived example and I have not\nfound a real instance yet.)\n\nTo make this class of error less likely, we can use explicitly-sized\narray parameters instead of pointers in the declarations for the hcall\nAPIs. When compiled with -Warray-bounds[1], the code above now\nprovokes a diagnostic like this:\n\nerror: array argument is too small;\nis of size 32, callee requires at least 72 [-Werror,-Warray-bounds]\n 60 | plpar_hcall9(H_ALLOCATE_VAS_WINDOW, retbuf,\n | ^ ~~~~~~\n\n[1] Enabled for LLVM builds but not GCC for now. See commit\n 0da6e5fd6c37 (\"gcc: disable '-Warray-bounds' for gcc-13 too\") and\n related changes." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b9377ffc3a03cde558d76349a262a1adbb6d3112","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"acf2b80c31c37acab040baa3cf5f19fbd5140b18"},{"version":"b9377ffc3a03cde558d76349a262a1adbb6d3112","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"19c166ee42cf16d8b156a6cb4544122d9a65d3ca"},{"version":"b9377ffc3a03cde558d76349a262a1adbb6d3112","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8c988d752b3d98d5cc1e3929c519a55ef55426c"},{"version":"b9377ffc3a03cde558d76349a262a1adbb6d3112","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"262e942ff5a839b9e4f3302a8987928b0c8b8a2d"},{"version":"b9377ffc3a03cde558d76349a262a1adbb6d3112","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8aa11aa001576bf3b00dcb8559564ad7a3113588"},{"version":"b9377ffc3a03cde558d76349a262a1adbb6d3112","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3ad0034910a57aa88ed9976b1431b7b8c84e0048"},{"version":"b9377ffc3a03cde558d76349a262a1adbb6d3112","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aa6107dcc4ce9a3451f2d729204713783b657257"},{"version":"b9377ffc3a03cde558d76349a262a1adbb6d3112","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ff2e185cf73df480ec69675936c4ee75a445c3e4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.19"},{"version":"4.19.317","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.279","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.162","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"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"}] ## 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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