5.5

CVE-2024-41084: linux NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41084DEBIAN-CVE-2024-41084
Published 29-07-2024Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-41084 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.23%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 16 · Related 15
RHSA-2024:9315SUSE-SU-2024:3194-1SUSE-SU-2024:3195-1SUSE-SU-2024:3383-1SUSE-SU-2025:20044-1SUSE-SU-2025:20047-1

Timeline

  1. 29-07-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/region: Avoid null pointer dereference in region lookup cxl_dpa_to_region() looks up a region based on a memdev and DPA. It wrongly assumes an endpoint found mapping the DPA is also of a fully assembled region. When not true it leads to a null pointer dereference looking up the region name. This appears during testing of region lookup after a failure to assemble a BIOS defined region or if the lookup raced with the assembly of the BIOS defined region. Failure to clean up BIOS defined regions that fail assembly is an issue in itself and a fix to that problem will alleviate some of the impact. It will not alleviate the race condition so let's harden this path. The behavior change is that the kernel oops due to a null pointer dereference is replaced with a dev_dbg() message noting that an endpoint was mapped. Additional comments are added so that future users of this function can more clearly understand what it provides.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.23%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

13%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.23% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.23%

Known exploited

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Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu93 products
  • linux< 6.8.0-48.48
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.8.0-1018.20
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 0a105ab28a4de44eb738ce64e9ac74946aa5133b, < a9e099e29e925f8b31cfe53e8a786b9796f8e453 | ≥ 0a105ab28a4de44eb738ce64e9ac74946aa5133b, < b8a40a6dbfb0150c1081384caa9bbe28ce5d5060 | ≥ 0a105ab28a4de44eb738ce64e9ac74946aa5133b, < 285f2a08841432fc3e498b1cd00cce5216cdf189 | 6.4
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.4, < 6.6.37 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.9.8
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.9.8-1

3 vendors · 96 products

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