# 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-2024-44939"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-08-26T11:20:44.129Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:37:08.416Z"
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-2024-44939"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-44939.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-44939"
title: "jfs: fix null ptr deref in dtInsertEntry"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njfs: fix null ptr deref in dtInsertEntry\n\n[syzbot reported]\ngeneral protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]\nCPU: 0 PID: 5061 Comm: syz-executor404 Not tainted 6.8.0-syzkaller-08951-gfe46a7dd189e #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024\nRIP: 0010:dtInsertEntry+0xd0c/0x1780 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:3713\n...\n[Analyze]\nIn dtInsertEntry(), when the pointer h has the same value as p, after writing\nname in UniStrncpy_to_le(), p-\u003eheader.flag will be cleared. This will cause the\npreviously true judgment \"p-\u003eheader.flag & BT-LEAF\" to change to no after writing\nthe name operation, this leads to entering an incorrect branch and accessing the\nuninitialized object ih when judging this condition for the second time.\n\n[Fix]\nAfter got the page, check freelist first, if freelist == 0 then exit dtInsert()\nand return -EINVAL."
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