{"cve":"CVE-2024-56612","nvd":{"published":"2024-12-27T15:15:20.687","modified":"2026-06-17T08:12:32.850","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/gup: handle NULL pages in unpin_user_pages()\n\nThe recent addition of \"pofs\" (pages or folios) handling to gup has a\nflaw: it assumes that unpin_user_pages() handles NULL pages in the pages**\narray.  That's not the case, as I discovered when I ran on a new\nconfiguration on my test machine.\n\nFix this by skipping NULL pages in unpin_user_pages(), just like\nunpin_folios() already does.\n\nDetails: when booting on x86 with \"numa=fake=2 movablecore=4G\" on Linux\n6.12, and running this:\n\n    tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_longterm\n\n...I get the following crash:\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008\nRIP: 0010:sanity_check_pinned_pages+0x3a/0x2d0\n...\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n ? __die_body+0x66/0xb0\n ? page_fault_oops+0x30c/0x3b0\n ? do_user_addr_fault+0x6c3/0x720\n ? irqentry_enter+0x34/0x60\n ? exc_page_fault+0x68/0x100\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n ? sanity_check_pinned_pages+0x3a/0x2d0\n unpin_user_pages+0x24/0xe0\n check_and_migrate_movable_pages_or_folios+0x455/0x4b0\n __gup_longterm_locked+0x3bf/0x820\n ? mmap_read_lock_killable+0x12/0x50\n ? __pfx_mmap_read_lock_killable+0x10/0x10\n pin_user_pages+0x66/0xa0\n gup_test_ioctl+0x358/0xb20\n __se_sys_ioctl+0x6b/0xc0\n do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x150\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-476"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69d319450d1c651f3b05cd820ff285fdd810c032","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1268be280d8e484ab3606d7476edd0f14bb9961"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:57:56.913276502+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-56612","score":0.00174,"percentile":0.06897,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}