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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-40978"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:32:14.149Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:46:24.694Z"
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-2024-40978"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40978.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40978"
title: "scsi: qedi: Fix crash while reading debugfs attribute"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qedi: Fix crash while reading debugfs attribute\n\nThe qedi_dbg_do_not_recover_cmd_read() function invokes sprintf() directly\non a __user pointer, which results into the crash.\n\nTo fix this issue, use a small local stack buffer for sprintf() and then\ncall simple_read_from_buffer(), which in turns make the copy_to_user()\ncall.\n\nBUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00007f4801111000\nPGD 8000000864df6067 P4D 8000000864df6067 PUD 864df7067 PMD 846028067 PTE 0\nOops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\nHardware name: HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10/ProLiant DL380 Gen10, BIOS U30 06/15/2023\nRIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0xcd/0x130\nRSP: 0018:ffffb7a18c3ffc40 EFLAGS: 00010202\nRAX: 00007f4801111000 RBX: 00007f4801111000 RCX: 000000000000000f\nRDX: 000000000000000f RSI: ffffffffc0bfd7a0 RDI: 00007f4801111000\nRBP: ffffffffc0bfd7a0 R08: 725f746f6e5f6f64 R09: 3d7265766f636572\nR10: ffffb7a18c3ffd08 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00007f4881110fff\nR13: 000000007fffffff R14: ffffb7a18c3ffca0 R15: ffffffffc0bfd7af\nFS:  00007f480118a740(0000) GS:ffff98e38af00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007f4801111000 CR3: 0000000864b8e001 CR4: 00000000007706e0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nPKRU: 55555554\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __die_body+0x1a/0x60\n ? page_fault_oops+0x183/0x510\n ? exc_page_fault+0x69/0x150\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n ? memcpy_orig+0xcd/0x130\n vsnprintf+0x102/0x4c0\n sprintf+0x51/0x80\n qedi_dbg_do_not_recover_cmd_read+0x2f/0x50 [qedi 6bcfdeeecdea037da47069eca2ba717c84a77324]\n full_proxy_read+0x50/0x80\n vfs_read+0xa5/0x2e0\n ? folio_add_new_anon_rmap+0x44/0xa0\n ? set_pte_at+0x15/0x30\n ? do_pte_missing+0x426/0x7f0\n ksys_read+0xa5/0xe0\n do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80\n ? __count_memcg_events+0x46/0x90\n ? count_memcg_event_mm+0x3d/0x60\n ? handle_mm_fault+0x196/0x2f0\n ? do_user_addr_fault+0x267/0x890\n ? exc_page_fault+0x69/0x150\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\nRIP: 0033:0x7f4800f20b4d"
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