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medium 5.5

CVE-2024-42079 json

gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush

published 2024-07-29 2 y ago modified 2026-10-15 25 d ago also EUVD-2024-39911

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 19%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush

In gfs2_jindex_free(), set sdp->sd_jdesc to NULL under the log flush lock to provide exclusion against gfs2_log_flush().

In gfs2_log_flush(), check if sdp->sd_jdesc is non-NULL before dereferencing it. Otherwise, we could run into a NULL pointer dereference when outstanding glock work races with an unmount (glock_work_func -> run_queue -> do_xmote -> inode_go_sync -> gfs2_log_flush).

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.15.200, 6.1.162, 6.6.37, 6.9.8, 6.10
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.162-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.9.8-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42079

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-127.137
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-48.48
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1073.79
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1018.20
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1072.80
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1017.19
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1070.76
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1013.17

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42079

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt RHEL 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10
  • kernel-rt-kvm RHEL 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10
  • kernel-rt-core RHEL 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10
  • kernel-rt-modules RHEL 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10
  • kernel-rt-debug-kvm RHEL 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10
  • kernel-rt-debug-core RHEL 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10
  • kernel-rt-debug-modules RHEL 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10
  • kernel-rt-modules-extra RHEL 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:8870RHSA-2024:8856RHSA-2024:8162

  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-10.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-10.1
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_2 Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.1
  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-19.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-19.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-19.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-17.1.1.51
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_2 Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20047-1SUSE-SU-2025:20044-1SUSE-SU-2024:3383-1SUSE-SU-2024:3195-1SUSE-SU-2024:3194-1SUSE-SU-2024:2947-1

  • kernel AlmaLinux 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10
  • perf AlmaLinux 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10
  • bpftool AlmaLinux 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10
  • kernel-core AlmaLinux 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10
  • kernel-tools AlmaLinux 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10
  • python3-perf AlmaLinux 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10
  • kernel-modules AlmaLinux 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10
  • kernel-zfcpdump AlmaLinux 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10

almalinux advisories ALSA-2024:8856ALSA-2024:8870ALSA-2024:8162

  • kernel-rt Rocky Linux 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10
  • kernel Rocky Linux 8 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10
  • kernel Rocky Linux 9 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2024:8870RLSA-2024:8856RLSA-2024:8162

  • kernel Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.43.1-7

azure linux advisories AZL-47166

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-42079 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-kvm, kernel-rt-core, kernel-rt-modules, kernel-rt-debug-kvm, kernel-rt-debug-core, +12 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) rv 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, perf 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, rtla 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-devel-matched 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-64k-devel-matched 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-debug-devel-matched 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, +6 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8162
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) perf 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10, kernel 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10, bpftool 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10, kernel-core 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10, kernel-tools 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10, python3-perf 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10, +15 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8856
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) bpftool 7.3.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-64k 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-core 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-tools 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, python3-perf 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, +28 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8162
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10, kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10, kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8856
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) libperf 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8162
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8) kernel-rt 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10, kernel-rt-kvm 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10, kernel-rt-core 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10, kernel-rt-modules 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10, kernel-rt-debug-kvm 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10, kernel-rt-debug-core 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10, +4 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8870
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  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 9) kernel-rt 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-kvm 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-core 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-modules 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-debug-kvm 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-debug-core 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, +6 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8162
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8) kernel-rt 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10, kernel-rt-core 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10, kernel-rt-modules 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10, kernel-rt-debug-core 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10, kernel-rt-debug-modules 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10, kernel-rt-modules-extra 4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8870
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 9) kernel-rt 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-core 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-modules 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-debug-core 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-modules-core 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-debug-modules 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4, +4 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8162

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-26-295-11 updated cvss 5.5

Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518(F)-4 PN/DP MFP

  • Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4AX00-1AB0) >= 3.1.7 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4AX00-1AC0) >= 3.1.7 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4FX00-1AB0) >= 3.1.7 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4FX00-1AC0) >= 3.1.7 Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP (6AG1518-4AX00-4AC0) >= 3.1.7
    affected: mitigation, no fix available

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

cisa ICSA-26-209-04 updated cvss 5.5

Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518(F)-4 PN/DP MFP

  • Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4AX00-1AB0) >= 3.1.6 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4AX00-1AC0) >= 3.1.6 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4FX00-1AB0) >= 3.1.6 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4FX00-1AC0) >= 3.1.6 Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP (6AG1518-4AX00-4AC0) >= 3.1.6
    affected: mitigation, no fix available

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux
  • Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP
  • Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP
  • Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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