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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-50223" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-11-09T10:14:34.219Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:47:47.135Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z" 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-2024-50223" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50223.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50223" title: "sched/numa: Fix the potential null pointer dereference in task_numa_work()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched/numa: Fix the potential null pointer dereference in task_numa_work()\n\nWhen running stress-ng-vm-segv test, we found a null pointer dereference\nerror in task_numa_work(). Here is the backtrace:\n\n [323676.066985] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000020\n ......\n [323676.067108] CPU: 35 PID: 2694524 Comm: stress-ng-vm-se\n ......\n [323676.067113] pstate: 23401009 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT +SSBS BTYPE=--)\n [323676.067115] pc : vma_migratable+0x1c/0xd0\n [323676.067122] lr : task_numa_work+0x1ec/0x4e0\n [323676.067127] sp : ffff8000ada73d20\n [323676.067128] x29: ffff8000ada73d20 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 000000003e89f010\n [323676.067130] x26: 0000000000080000 x25: ffff800081b5c0d8 x24: ffff800081b27000\n [323676.067133] x23: 0000000000010000 x22: 0000000104d18cc0 x21: ffff0009f7158000\n [323676.067135] x20: 0000000000000000 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: ffff8000ada73db8\n [323676.067138] x17: 0001400000000000 x16: ffff800080df40b0 x15: 0000000000000035\n [323676.067140] x14: ffff8000ada73cc8 x13: 1fffe0017cc72001 x12: ffff8000ada73cc8\n [323676.067142] x11: ffff80008001160c x10: ffff000be639000c x9 : ffff8000800f4ba4\n [323676.067145] x8 : ffff000810375000 x7 : ffff8000ada73974 x6 : 0000000000000001\n [323676.067147] x5 : 0068000b33e26707 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : ffff0009f7158000\n [323676.067149] x2 : 0000000000000041 x1 : 0000000000004400 x0 : 0000000000000000\n [323676.067152] Call trace:\n [323676.067153] vma_migratable+0x1c/0xd0\n [323676.067155] task_numa_work+0x1ec/0x4e0\n [323676.067157] task_work_run+0x78/0xd8\n [323676.067161] do_notify_resume+0x1ec/0x290\n [323676.067163] el0_svc+0x150/0x160\n [323676.067167] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xf8/0x128\n [323676.067170] el0t_64_sync+0x17c/0x180\n [323676.067173] Code: d2888001 910003fd f9000bf3 aa0003f3 (f9401000)\n [323676.067177] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs\n [323676.070184] Starting crashdump kernel...\n\nstress-ng-vm-segv in stress-ng is used to stress test the SIGSEGV error\nhandling function of the system, which tries to cause a SIGSEGV error on\nreturn from unmapping the whole address space of the child process.\n\nNormally this program will not cause kernel crashes. But before the\nmunmap system call returns to user mode, a potential task_numa_work()\nfor numa balancing could be added and executed. In this scenario, since the\nchild process has no vma after munmap, the vma_next() in task_numa_work()\nwill return a null pointer even if the vma iterator restarts from 0.\n\nRecheck the vma pointer before dereferencing it in task_numa_work()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"214dbc4281374cbbd833edd502d0ed1fd1b0e243","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ade91f6e9848b370add44d89c976e070ccb492ef"},{"version":"214dbc4281374cbbd833edd502d0ed1fd1b0e243","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c60d98ef7078fc3e22b48e98eae7a897d88494ee"},{"version":"214dbc4281374cbbd833edd502d0ed1fd1b0e243","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c70b2a33cd2aa6a5a59c5523ef053bd42265209"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"version":"6.6.60","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.7","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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