# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-53113"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-12-02T13:44:45.419Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:51:06.019Z"
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-2024-53113"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-53113.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53113"
title: "mm: fix NULL pointer dereference in alloc_pages_bulk_noprof"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: fix NULL pointer dereference in alloc_pages_bulk_noprof\n\nWe triggered a NULL pointer dereference for ac.preferred_zoneref-\u003ezone in\nalloc_pages_bulk_noprof() when the task is migrated between cpusets.\n\nWhen cpuset is enabled, in prepare_alloc_pages(), ac-\u003enodemask may be\n&current-\u003emems_allowed.  when first_zones_zonelist() is called to find\npreferred_zoneref, the ac-\u003enodemask may be modified concurrently if the\ntask is migrated between different cpusets.  Assuming we have 2 NUMA Node,\nwhen traversing Node1 in ac-\u003ezonelist, the nodemask is 2, and when\ntraversing Node2 in ac-\u003ezonelist, the nodemask is 1.  As a result, the\nac-\u003epreferred_zoneref points to NULL zone.\n\nIn alloc_pages_bulk_noprof(), for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask() finds a\nallowable zone and calls zonelist_node_idx(ac.preferred_zoneref), leading\nto NULL pointer dereference.\n\n__alloc_pages_noprof() fixes this issue by checking NULL pointer in commit\nea57485af8f4 (\"mm, page_alloc: fix check for NULL preferred_zone\") and\ncommit df76cee6bbeb (\"mm, page_alloc: remove redundant checks from alloc\nfastpath\").\n\nTo fix it, check NULL pointer for preferred_zoneref-\u003ezone."
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