# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-41055"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-29T14:32:10.672Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:51:49.078Z"
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-2024-41055"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-41055.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-41055"
title: "mm: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfn_section_valid()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfn_section_valid()\n\nCommit 5ec8e8ea8b77 (\"mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing\nmemory_section-\u003eusage\") changed pfn_section_valid() to add a READ_ONCE()\ncall around \"ms-\u003eusage\" to fix a race with section_deactivate() where\nms-\u003eusage can be cleared.  The READ_ONCE() call, by itself, is not enough\nto prevent NULL pointer dereference.  We need to check its value before\ndereferencing it."
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