# 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-2024-42159"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-30T07:47:01.276Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:28:07.661Z"
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-2024-42159"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-42159.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42159"
title: "scsi: mpi3mr: Sanitise num_phys"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: mpi3mr: Sanitise num_phys\n\nInformation is stored in mr_sas_port-\u003ephy_mask, values larger then size of\nthis field shouldn't be allowed."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fc7212fd3100920fea711a80482d967388a4603c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b869ec89d2ee923d46608b76e54c006680c9b4df"},{"version":"fc7212fd3100920fea711a80482d967388a4603c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"586b41060113ae43032ec6c4a16d518cef5da6e0"},{"version":"fc7212fd3100920fea711a80482d967388a4603c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c8707901b53a48106d7501bdbd0350cefaefa4cf"},{"version":"fc7212fd3100920fea711a80482d967388a4603c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3668651def2c1622904e58b0280ee93121f2b10b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.1.98","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.9","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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