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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-49854"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-21T12:18:46.723Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:40:04.538Z"
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-2024-49854"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49854.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49854"
title: "block, bfq: fix uaf for accessing waker_bfqq after splitting"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblock, bfq: fix uaf for accessing waker_bfqq after splitting\n\nAfter commit 42c306ed7233 (\"block, bfq: don't break merge chain in\nbfq_split_bfqq()\"), if the current procress is the last holder of bfqq,\nthe bfqq can be freed after bfq_split_bfqq(). Hence recored the bfqq and\nthen access bfqq-\u003ewaker_bfqq may trigger UAF. What's more, the waker_bfqq\nmay in the merge chain of bfqq, hence just recored waker_bfqq is still\nnot safe.\n\nFix the problem by adding a helper bfq_waker_bfqq() to check if\nbfqq-\u003ewaker_bfqq is in the merge chain, and current procress is the only\nholder."
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