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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-53167"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-12-27T13:49:13.201Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:46.787Z"
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-2024-53167"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-53167.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53167"
title: "nfs/blocklayout: Don't attempt unregister for invalid block device"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfs/blocklayout: Don't attempt unregister for invalid block device\n\nSince commit d869da91cccb (\"nfs/blocklayout: Fix premature PR key\nunregistration\") an unmount of a pNFS SCSI layout-enabled NFS may\ndereference a NULL block_device in:\n\n  bl_unregister_scsi+0x16/0xe0 [blocklayoutdriver]\n  bl_free_device+0x70/0x80 [blocklayoutdriver]\n  bl_free_deviceid_node+0x12/0x30 [blocklayoutdriver]\n  nfs4_put_deviceid_node+0x60/0xc0 [nfsv4]\n  nfs4_deviceid_purge_client+0x132/0x190 [nfsv4]\n  unset_pnfs_layoutdriver+0x59/0x60 [nfsv4]\n  nfs4_destroy_server+0x36/0x70 [nfsv4]\n  nfs_free_server+0x23/0xe0 [nfs]\n  deactivate_locked_super+0x30/0xb0\n  cleanup_mnt+0xba/0x150\n  task_work_run+0x59/0x90\n  syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x217/0x220\n  do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x160\n\nThis happens because even though we were able to create the\nnfs4_deviceid_node, the lookup for the device was unable to attach the\nblock device to the pnfs_block_dev.\n\nIf we never found a block device to register, we can avoid this case with\nthe PNFS_BDEV_REGISTERED flag.  Move the deref behind the test for the\nflag."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d869da91cccb90320e101a2758f1e2b3803ade5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3402704a424f34bbcca7f4a4503859357f422217"},{"version":"d869da91cccb90320e101a2758f1e2b3803ade5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"faa4bacfaeed827a4ca8cb8529a3ce65a9e8ef46"},{"version":"d869da91cccb90320e101a2758f1e2b3803ade5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a4ce14d9a6b868e0787e4582420b721c04ee41e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.11.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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