# 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-2024-49957"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-21T18:02:11.046Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:42:48.902Z"
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-2024-49957"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49957.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49957"
title: "ocfs2: fix null-ptr-deref when journal load failed."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nocfs2: fix null-ptr-deref when journal load failed.\n\nDuring the mounting process, if journal_reset() fails because of too short\njournal, then lead to jbd2_journal_load() fails with NULL j_sb_buffer. \nSubsequently, ocfs2_journal_shutdown() calls\njbd2_journal_flush()-\u003ejbd2_cleanup_journal_tail()-\u003e\n__jbd2_update_log_tail()-\u003ejbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail()\n-\u003elock_buffer(journal-\u003ej_sb_buffer), resulting in a null-pointer\ndereference error.\n\nTo resolve this issue, we should check the JBD2_LOADED flag to ensure the\njournal was properly loaded.  Additionally, use journal instead of\nosb-\u003ejournal directly to simplify the code."
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