# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-49926"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-21T18:01:50.405Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:41:57.259Z"
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-2024-49926"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49926.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49926"
title: "rcu-tasks: Fix access non-existent percpu rtpcp variable in rcu_tasks_need_gpcb()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrcu-tasks: Fix access non-existent percpu rtpcp variable in rcu_tasks_need_gpcb()\n\nFor kernels built with CONFIG_FORCE_NR_CPUS=y, the nr_cpu_ids is\ndefined as NR_CPUS instead of the number of possible cpus, this\nwill cause the following system panic:\n\nsmpboot: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs\n...\nsetup_percpu: NR_CPUS:512 nr_cpumask_bits:512 nr_cpu_ids:512 nr_node_ids:1\n...\nBUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffff9911c8c8\nOops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\nCPU: 0 PID: 15 Comm: rcu_tasks_trace Tainted: G W\n6.6.21 #1 5dc7acf91a5e8e9ac9dcfc35bee0245691283ea6\nRIP: 0010:rcu_tasks_need_gpcb+0x25d/0x2c0\nRSP: 0018:ffffa371c00a3e60 EFLAGS: 00010082\nCR2: ffffffff9911c8c8 CR3: 000000040fa20005 CR4: 00000000001706f0\nCall Trace:\n\u003cTASK\u003e\n? __die+0x23/0x80\n? page_fault_oops+0xa4/0x180\n? exc_page_fault+0x152/0x180\n? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x40\n? rcu_tasks_need_gpcb+0x25d/0x2c0\n? __pfx_rcu_tasks_kthread+0x40/0x40\nrcu_tasks_one_gp+0x69/0x180\nrcu_tasks_kthread+0x94/0xc0\nkthread+0xe8/0x140\n? __pfx_kthread+0x40/0x40\nret_from_fork+0x34/0x80\n? __pfx_kthread+0x40/0x40\nret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x80\n\u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nConsidering that there may be holes in the CPU numbers, use the\nmaximum possible cpu number, instead of nr_cpu_ids, for configuring\nenqueue and dequeue limits.\n\n[ neeraj.upadhyay: Fix htmldocs build error reported by Stephen Rothwell ]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8610b65680390a103b58f46282a1b05f7eebbba4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b3b2431ed27f4ebc28e26cdf005c1de42dc60bdf"},{"version":"8610b65680390a103b58f46282a1b05f7eebbba4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3104bddc666ff64b90491868bbc4c7ebdd90aedf"},{"version":"8610b65680390a103b58f46282a1b05f7eebbba4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"05095271a4fb0f6497121a057f9a2edf386d5d96"},{"version":"8610b65680390a103b58f46282a1b05f7eebbba4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd70e9f1d85f5323096ad313ba73f5fe3d15ea41"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.6.60","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"}]

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