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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-43889" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-08-26T10:10:42.270Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:48:55.559Z" 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-2024-43889" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-43889.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43889" title: "padata: Fix possible divide-by-0 panic in padata_mt_helper()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npadata: Fix possible divide-by-0 panic in padata_mt_helper()\n\nWe are hit with a not easily reproducible divide-by-0 panic in padata.c at\nbootup time.\n\n [ 10.017908] Oops: divide error: 0000 1 PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n [ 10.017908] CPU: 26 PID: 2627 Comm: kworker/u1666:1 Not tainted 6.10.0-15.el10.x86_64 #1\n [ 10.017908] Hardware name: Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 [7X12CTO1WW]/[7X12CTO1WW], BIOS [PSE140J-2.30] 07/20/2021\n [ 10.017908] Workqueue: events_unbound padata_mt_helper\n [ 10.017908] RIP: 0010:padata_mt_helper+0x39/0xb0\n :\n [ 10.017963] Call Trace:\n [ 10.017968] \u003cTASK\u003e\n [ 10.018004] ? padata_mt_helper+0x39/0xb0\n [ 10.018084] process_one_work+0x174/0x330\n [ 10.018093] worker_thread+0x266/0x3a0\n [ 10.018111] kthread+0xcf/0x100\n [ 10.018124] ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50\n [ 10.018138] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n [ 10.018147] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nLooking at the padata_mt_helper() function, the only way a divide-by-0\npanic can happen is when ps-\u003echunk_size is 0. The way that chunk_size is\ninitialized in padata_do_multithreaded(), chunk_size can be 0 when the\nmin_chunk in the passed-in padata_mt_job structure is 0.\n\nFix this divide-by-0 panic by making sure that chunk_size will be at least\n1 no matter what the input parameters are." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"004ed42638f4428e70ead59d170f3d17ff761a0f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab8b397d5997d8c37610252528edc54bebf9f6d3"},{"version":"004ed42638f4428e70ead59d170f3d17ff761a0f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f5ffd2af7274853ff91d6cd62541191d9fbd10d"},{"version":"004ed42638f4428e70ead59d170f3d17ff761a0f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a29cfcb848c31f22b4de6a531c3e1d68c9bfe09f"},{"version":"004ed42638f4428e70ead59d170f3d17ff761a0f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"924f788c906dccaca30acab86c7124371e1d6f2c"},{"version":"004ed42638f4428e70ead59d170f3d17ff761a0f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da0ffe84fcc1627a7dff82c80b823b94236af905"},{"version":"004ed42638f4428e70ead59d170f3d17ff761a0f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d45e1c948a8b7ed6ceddb14319af69424db730c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.224","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.165","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11","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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