What is CVE-2024-35832?

CVE-2024-35832 is a Medium severity Linux kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10, classified as a Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference flaw (CWE-763). CVE-2024-35832 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2024-35832?

CVE-2024-35832 has a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10, rated Medium severity. The vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Is there a patch available for CVE-2024-35832?

No patch is currently available for CVE-2024-35832. Monitor the NIST NVD and your Linux distribution's security advisories for updates.

Is CVE-2024-35832 actively exploited?

CVE-2024-35832 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference (CWE-763)?

The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system but calls the wrong release function. See MITRE CWE for full details: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/763.html

CVE-2024-35832

Medium

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bcachefs: kvfree bch_fs::snapshots in bch2_fs_snapshots_exit bch_fs::snapshots is allocated by kvzalloc in __snapshot_t_mut. It should be freed by kvfree not kfree. Or umount will triger: [ 406.829178 ] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffe7b487148008 [ 406.830676 ] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 406.831643 ] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 406.832487 ] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 406.832898 ] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [ 406.833512 ] CPU: 2 PID: 1754 Comm: umount Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE 6.7.0-rc7-custom+ #90 [ 406.834746 ] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014 [ 406.835796 ] RIP: 0010:kfree+0x62/0x140 [ 406.836197 ] Code: 80 48 01 d8 0f 82 e9 00 00 00 48 c7 c2 00 00 00 80 48 2b 15 78 9f 1f 01 48 01 d0 48 c1 e8 0c 48 c1 e0 06 48 03 05 56 9f 1f 01 <48> 8b 50 08 48 89 c7 f6 c2 01 0f 85 b0 00 00 00 66 90 48 8b 07 f6 [ 406.837810 ] RSP: 0018:ffffb9d641607e48 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 406.838213 ] RAX: ffffe7b487148000 RBX: ffffb9d645200000 RCX: ffffb9d641607dc4 [ 406.838738 ] RDX: 000065bb00000000 RSI: ffffffffc0d88b84 RDI: ffffb9d645200000 [ 406.839217 ] RBP: ffff9a4625d00068 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001 [ 406.839650 ] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 000000000000001f R12: ffff9a4625d4da80 [ 406.840055 ] R13: ffff9a4625d00000 R14: ffffffffc0e2eb20 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 406.840451 ] FS: 00007f0a264ffb80(0000) GS:ffff9a4e2d500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 406.840851 ] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 406.841125 ] CR2: ffffe7b487148008 CR3: 000000018c4d2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 406.841464 ] Call Trace: [ 406.841583 ] <TASK> [ 406.841682 ] ? __die+0x1f/0x70 [ 406.841828 ] ? page_fault_oops+0x159/0x470 [ 406.842014 ] ? fixup_exception+0x22/0x310 [ 406.842198 ] ? exc_page_fault+0x1ed/0x200 [ 406.842382 ] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 [ 406.842574 ] ? bch2_fs_release+0x54/0x280 [bcachefs] [ 406.842842 ] ? kfree+0x62/0x140 [ 406.842988 ] ? kfree+0x104/0x140 [ 406.843138 ] bch2_fs_release+0x54/0x280 [bcachefs] [ 406.843390 ] kobject_put+0xb7/0x170 [ 406.843552 ] deactivate_locked_super+0x2f/0xa0 [ 406.843756 ] cleanup_mnt+0xba/0x150 [ 406.843917 ] task_work_run+0x59/0xa0 [ 406.844083 ] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x197/0x1a0 [ 406.844302 ] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 [ 406.844510 ] do_syscall_64+0x4e/0xf0 [ 406.844675 ] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 [ 406.844907 ] RIP: 0033:0x7f0a2664e4fb

Package Linux Kernel

Published 2024-05-17

Last modified 2025-09-24

CVSS version 3.1

Patch available

Awaiting data

CVSS 3.1 score

5.5

out of 10

Medium

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Vector string

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness type

CWE-763

CVE-2024-35832 is a Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference vulnerability

What is Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference?

The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system but calls the wrong release function. Learn more on MITRE CWE

References

The following references provide additional information about CVE-2024-35832 including vendor advisories, patch commits, exploit details, and third-party analysis. Links are sourced from the NIST NVD database.

Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/369acf97d6fd5da620d053d0f1878ffe32eff555
Patch
Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56590678791119b9a655202e49898edfb9307271
Patch

Details

CVE ID CVE-2024-35832

Severity Medium

CVSS score 5.5 / 10

CVSS version 3.1

Published 2024-05-17

Modified 2025-09-24

KEV No

Patch Awaiting data

Package linux

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-35832?

CVE-2024-35832 is a Medium severity Linux kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10 , classified as a Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference flaw (CWE-763) . CVE-2024-35832 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
What is the CVSS score for CVE-2024-35832?

CVE-2024-35832 has a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10, rated Medium severity (CVSS 3.1). The vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Is there a patch available for CVE-2024-35832?

No patch is currently available for CVE-2024-35832. Monitor the NIST NVD and your Linux distribution's security advisories for updates.
Is CVE-2024-35832 actively exploited?

No — CVE-2024-35832 has not been confirmed as actively exploited. It is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.
What is Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference (CWE-763)?

The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system but calls the wrong release function. View CWE-763 on MITRE CWE →