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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-49888" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-10-21T18:01:24.235Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:35:19.986Z" 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-2024-49888" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49888.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49888" title: "bpf: Fix a sdiv overflow issue" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix a sdiv overflow issue\n\nZac Ecob reported a problem where a bpf program may cause kernel crash due\nto the following error:\n Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\n\nThe failure is due to the below signed divide:\n LLONG_MIN/-1 where LLONG_MIN equals to -9,223,372,036,854,775,808.\nLLONG_MIN/-1 is supposed to give a positive number 9,223,372,036,854,775,808,\nbut it is impossible since for 64-bit system, the maximum positive\nnumber is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807. On x86_64, LLONG_MIN/-1 will\ncause a kernel exception. On arm64, the result for LLONG_MIN/-1 is\nLLONG_MIN.\n\nFurther investigation found all the following sdiv/smod cases may trigger\nan exception when bpf program is running on x86_64 platform:\n - LLONG_MIN/-1 for 64bit operation\n - INT_MIN/-1 for 32bit operation\n - LLONG_MIN%-1 for 64bit operation\n - INT_MIN%-1 for 32bit operation\nwhere -1 can be an immediate or in a register.\n\nOn arm64, there are no exceptions:\n - LLONG_MIN/-1 = LLONG_MIN\n - INT_MIN/-1 = INT_MIN\n - LLONG_MIN%-1 = 0\n - INT_MIN%-1 = 0\nwhere -1 can be an immediate or in a register.\n\nInsn patching is needed to handle the above cases and the patched codes\nproduced results aligned with above arm64 result. The below are pseudo\ncodes to handle sdiv/smod exceptions including both divisor -1 and divisor 0\nand the divisor is stored in a register.\n\nsdiv:\n tmp = rX\n tmp += 1 /* [-1, 0] -\u003e [0, 1]\n if tmp \u003e(unsigned) 1 goto L2\n if tmp == 0 goto L1\n rY = 0\n L1:\n rY = -rY;\n goto L3\n L2:\n rY /= rX\n L3:\n\nsmod:\n tmp = rX\n tmp += 1 /* [-1, 0] -\u003e [0, 1]\n if tmp \u003e(unsigned) 1 goto L1\n if tmp == 1 (is64 ? goto L2 : goto L3)\n rY = 0;\n goto L2\n L1:\n rY %= rX\n L2:\n goto L4 // only when !is64\n L3:\n wY = wY // only when !is64\n L4:\n\n [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/tPJLTEh7S_DxFEqAI2Ji5MBSoZVg7_G-Py2iaZpAaWtM961fFTWtsnlzwvTbzBzaUzwQAoNATXKUlt0LZOFgnDcIyKCswAnAGdUF3LBrhGQ=@protonmail.com/" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ec0e2da95f72d4a46050a4d994e4fe471474fd80","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"45f2bbe7bc08d716a07a40025c672cad93180903"},{"version":"ec0e2da95f72d4a46050a4d994e4fe471474fd80","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4902a6a0dc593c82055fc8c9ada371bafe26c9cc"},{"version":"ec0e2da95f72d4a46050a4d994e4fe471474fd80","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d22e45a369afc7c28f11acfa5b5e8e478227ca5d"},{"version":"ec0e2da95f72d4a46050a4d994e4fe471474fd80","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7dd34d7b7dcf9309fc6224caf4dd5b35bedddcb7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","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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