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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-41098" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-07-29T15:48:11.093Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:26:10.378Z" 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-2024-41098" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-41098.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-41098" title: "ata: libata-core: Fix null pointer dereference on error" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nata: libata-core: Fix null pointer dereference on error\n\nIf the ata_port_alloc() call in ata_host_alloc() fails,\nata_host_release() will get called.\n\nHowever, the code in ata_host_release() tries to free ata_port struct\nmembers unconditionally, which can lead to the following:\n\nBUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000003990\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\nCPU: 10 PID: 594 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.10.0-rc5 #44\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:ata_host_release.cold+0x2f/0x6e [libata]\nCode: e4 4d 63 f4 44 89 e2 48 c7 c6 90 ad 32 c0 48 c7 c7 d0 70 33 c0 49 83 c6 0e 41\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90000ebb968 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 0000000000000041 RBX: ffff88810fb52e78 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88813b3218c0 RDI: ffff88813b3218c0\nRBP: ffff88810fb52e40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 6c65725f74736f68\nR10: ffffc90000ebb738 R11: 73692033203a746e R12: 0000000000000004\nR13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000011 R15: 0000000000000006\nFS: 00007f6cc55b9980(0000) GS:ffff88813b300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000003990 CR3: 00000001122a2000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0\nPKRU: 55555554\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x27\n ? page_fault_oops+0x15a/0x2f0\n ? exc_page_fault+0x7e/0x180\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30\n ? ata_host_release.cold+0x2f/0x6e [libata]\n ? ata_host_release.cold+0x2f/0x6e [libata]\n release_nodes+0x35/0xb0\n devres_release_group+0x113/0x140\n ata_host_alloc+0xed/0x120 [libata]\n ata_host_alloc_pinfo+0x14/0xa0 [libata]\n ahci_init_one+0x6c9/0xd20 [ahci]\n\nDo not access ata_port struct members unconditionally." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"633273a3ed1cf37ced90475b0f95cf81deab04f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9c4df80b1b009de1eb77c07e3bb4d45bd212aa5"},{"version":"633273a3ed1cf37ced90475b0f95cf81deab04f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"56e62977eaaae3eb7122ee2cf9b720b6703114a9"},{"version":"633273a3ed1cf37ced90475b0f95cf81deab04f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e83405e75d90694ee6a5d898f7f0473ac2686054"},{"version":"633273a3ed1cf37ced90475b0f95cf81deab04f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"221e3b1297e74fdec32d0f572f4dcb2260a0a2af"},{"version":"633273a3ed1cf37ced90475b0f95cf81deab04f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f0d37c154bb108730c90a91aa31e3170e827962"},{"version":"633273a3ed1cf37ced90475b0f95cf81deab04f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"119c97ace2a9ffcf4dc09a23bb057d6c281aff28"},{"version":"633273a3ed1cf37ced90475b0f95cf81deab04f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8a8ff7e3b736a70d7b7c8764cbcd2724d4079ec8"},{"version":"633273a3ed1cf37ced90475b0f95cf81deab04f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d92c7c566dc76d96e0e19e481d926bbe6631c1e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.24","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.24"},{"version":"4.19.321","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.283","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.225","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.166","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.108","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"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"}] ## 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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