# 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-2026-46024"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:56:29.932Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:26:41.575Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-46024"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46024.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46024"
title: "libceph: Prevent potential null-ptr-deref in ceph_handle_auth_reply()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlibceph: Prevent potential null-ptr-deref in ceph_handle_auth_reply()\n\nIf a message of type CEPH_MSG_AUTH_REPLY contains a zero value for both\nprotocol and result, this is currently not treated as an error. In case\nof ac-\u003enegotiating == true and ac-\u003eprotocol \u003e 0, this leads to setting\nac-\u003eprotocol = 0 and ac-\u003eops = NULL. Thereafter, the check for\nac-\u003eprotocol != protocol returns false, and init_protocol() is not\ncalled. Subsequently, ac-\u003eops-\u003ehandle_reply() is called, which leads to\na null pointer dereference, because ac-\u003eops is still NULL.\n\nThis patch changes the check for ac-\u003eprotocol != protocol to\n!ac-\u003eprotocol, as this also includes the case when the protocol was set\nto zero in the message. This causes the message to be treated as\ncontaining a bad auth protocol."
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