# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-41084"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-29T15:48:00.323Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:25:53.163Z"
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-2024-41084"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-41084.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-41084"
title: "cxl/region: Avoid null pointer dereference in region lookup"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncxl/region: Avoid null pointer dereference in region lookup\n\ncxl_dpa_to_region() looks up a region based on a memdev and DPA.\nIt wrongly assumes an endpoint found mapping the DPA is also of\na fully assembled region. When not true it leads to a null pointer\ndereference looking up the region name.\n\nThis appears during testing of region lookup after a failure to\nassemble a BIOS defined region or if the lookup raced with the\nassembly of the BIOS defined region.\n\nFailure to clean up BIOS defined regions that fail assembly is an\nissue in itself and a fix to that problem will alleviate some of\nthe impact. It will not alleviate the race condition so let's harden\nthis path.\n\nThe behavior change is that the kernel oops due to a null pointer\ndereference is replaced with a dev_dbg() message noting that an\nendpoint was mapped.\n\nAdditional comments are added so that future users of this function\ncan more clearly understand what it provides."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0a105ab28a4de44eb738ce64e9ac74946aa5133b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9e099e29e925f8b31cfe53e8a786b9796f8e453"},{"version":"0a105ab28a4de44eb738ce64e9ac74946aa5133b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8a40a6dbfb0150c1081384caa9bbe28ce5d5060"},{"version":"0a105ab28a4de44eb738ce64e9ac74946aa5133b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"285f2a08841432fc3e498b1cd00cce5216cdf189"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.37","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.8","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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