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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-57929" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-01-19T11:52:46.096Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:00:50.832Z" 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-2024-57929" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-57929.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57929" title: "dm array: fix releasing a faulty array block twice in dm_array_cursor_end" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm array: fix releasing a faulty array block twice in dm_array_cursor_end\n\nWhen dm_bm_read_lock() fails due to locking or checksum errors, it\nreleases the faulty block implicitly while leaving an invalid output\npointer behind. The caller of dm_bm_read_lock() should not operate on\nthis invalid dm_block pointer, or it will lead to undefined result.\nFor example, the dm_array_cursor incorrectly caches the invalid pointer\non reading a faulty array block, causing a double release in\ndm_array_cursor_end(), then hitting the BUG_ON in dm-bufio cache_put().\n\nReproduce steps:\n\n1. initialize a cache device\n\ndmsetup create cmeta --table \"0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0\"\ndmsetup create cdata --table \"0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192\"\ndmsetup create corig --table \"0 524288 linear /dev/sdc $262144\"\ndd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1\ndmsetup create cache --table \"0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \\\n/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0\"\n\n2. wipe the second array block offline\n\ndmsteup remove cache cmeta cdata corig\nmapping_root=$(dd if=/dev/sdc bs=1c count=8 skip=192 \\\n2\u003e/dev/null | hexdump -e '1/8 \"%u\\n\"')\nablock=$(dd if=/dev/sdc bs=1c count=8 skip=$((4096*mapping_root+2056)) \\\n2\u003e/dev/null | hexdump -e '1/8 \"%u\\n\"')\ndd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=4k count=1 seek=$ablock\n\n3. try reopen the cache device\n\ndmsetup create cmeta --table \"0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0\"\ndmsetup create cdata --table \"0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192\"\ndmsetup create corig --table \"0 524288 linear /dev/sdc $262144\"\ndmsetup create cache --table \"0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \\\n/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0\"\n\nKernel logs:\n\n(snip)\ndevice-mapper: array: array_block_check failed: blocknr 0 != wanted 10\ndevice-mapper: block manager: array validator check failed for block 10\ndevice-mapper: array: get_ablock failed\ndevice-mapper: cache metadata: dm_array_cursor_next for mapping failed\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nkernel BUG at drivers/md/dm-bufio.c:638!\n\nFix by setting the cached block pointer to NULL on errors.\n\nIn addition to the reproducer described above, this fix can be\nverified using the \"array_cursor/damaged\" test in dm-unit:\n dm-unit run /pdata/array_cursor/damaged --kernel-dir \u003cKERNEL_DIR\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fdd1315aa5f022fe6574efdc2d9535f75a0ee255","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c7c03d0e926762adf3a3a0ba86156fb5e19538b"},{"version":"fdd1315aa5f022fe6574efdc2d9535f75a0ee255","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fc1ef07c3522e257e32702954f265debbcb096a7"},{"version":"fdd1315aa5f022fe6574efdc2d9535f75a0ee255","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"738994872d77e189b2d13c501a1d145e95d98f46"},{"version":"fdd1315aa5f022fe6574efdc2d9535f75a0ee255","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e477021d252c007f0c6d45b5d13d341efed03979"},{"version":"fdd1315aa5f022fe6574efdc2d9535f75a0ee255","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6002bec5354f86d1a2df21468f68e3ec03ede9da"},{"version":"fdd1315aa5f022fe6574efdc2d9535f75a0ee255","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"017c4470bff53585370028fec9341247bad358ff"},{"version":"fdd1315aa5f022fe6574efdc2d9535f75a0ee255","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f2893c0804d86230ffb8f1c8703fdbb18648abc8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"},{"version":"5.4.290","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.234","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.177","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.125","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.72","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","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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