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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-48881" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-01-11T12:25:18.614Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:53:14.555Z" 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-2024-48881" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-48881.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48881" title: "bcache: revert replacing IS_ERR_OR_NULL with IS_ERR again" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbcache: revert replacing IS_ERR_OR_NULL with IS_ERR again\n\nCommit 028ddcac477b (\"bcache: Remove unnecessary NULL point check in\nnode allocations\") leads a NULL pointer deference in cache_set_flush().\n\n1721 if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(c-\u003eroot))\n1722 list_add(&c-\u003eroot-\u003elist, &c-\u003ebtree_cache);\n\n\u003eFrom the above code in cache_set_flush(), if previous registration code\nfails before allocating c-\u003eroot, it is possible c-\u003eroot is NULL as what\nit is initialized. __bch_btree_node_alloc() never returns NULL but\nc-\u003eroot is possible to be NULL at above line 1721.\n\nThis patch replaces IS_ERR() by IS_ERR_OR_NULL() to fix this." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0729029e647234fa1a94376b6edffec5c2cd75f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4379c5828492a4c2a651c8f826a01453bd2b80b0"},{"version":"db9439cef0b5efccf8021fe89f4953e0f901e85b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"336e30f32ae7c043fde0f6fa21586ff30bea9fe2"},{"version":"991e9c186a8ac6ab272a86e0ddc6f9733c38b867","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fb5fee35bdd18316a84b5f30881a24e1415e1464"},{"version":"68118c339c6e1e16ae017bef160dbe28a27ae9c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5202391970ffbf81975251b3526b890ba027b715"},{"version":"028ddcac477b691dd9205c92f991cc15259d033e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc05aa2c0117e20fa25a3c0d915f98b8f2e78667"},{"version":"028ddcac477b691dd9205c92f991cc15259d033e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e0e913624bcd24f3de414475018d3023f060ee1"},{"version":"028ddcac477b691dd9205c92f991cc15259d033e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b2e382ae12a63560fca35050498e19e760adf8c0"},{"version":"fe75e8a0c20127a8dc95704f1a7ad6b82c9a0ef8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"0cabf9e164660e8d66c4810396046383a1110a69","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.4.251","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.287"},{"version":"5.10.188","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.231"},{"version":"5.15.121","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.174"},{"version":"6.1.39","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.120"},{"version":"4.19.291","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"6.4.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"},{"version":"5.4.287","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.231","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.174","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.66","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","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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