{"id":"CVE-2024-43889","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-43889","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:10:28.551Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: padata: Fix possible divide-by-0 panic in padata_mt_helper() We are hit with a not easily reproducible divide-by-0 panic in padata.c at bootup time. [ 10.017908] Oops: divide error:…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npadata: Fix possible divide-by-0 panic in padata_mt_helper()\n\nWe are hit with a not easily reproducible divide-by-0 panic in padata.c at\nbootup time.\n\n  [   10.017908] Oops: divide error: 0000 1 PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n  [   10.017908] CPU: 26 PID: 2627 Comm: kworker/u1666:1 Not tainted 6.10.0-15.el10.x86_64 #1\n  [   10.017908] Hardware name: Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 [7X12CTO1WW]/[7X12CTO1WW], BIOS [PSE140J-2.30] 07/20/2021\n  [   10.017908] Workqueue: events_unbound padata_mt_helper\n  [   10.017908] RIP: 0010:padata_mt_helper+0x39/0xb0\n    :\n  [   10.017963] Call Trace:\n  [   10.017968]  <TASK>\n  [   10.018004]  ? padata_mt_helper+0x39/0xb0\n  [   10.018084]  process_one_work+0x174/0x330\n  [   10.018093]  worker_thread+0x266/0x3a0\n  [   10.018111]  kthread+0xcf/0x100\n  [   10.018124]  ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50\n  [   10.018138]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n  [   10.018147]  </TASK>\n\nLooking at the padata_mt_helper() function, the only way a divide-by-0\npanic can happen is when ps->chunk_size is 0.  The way that chunk_size is\ninitialized in padata_do_multithreaded(), chunk_size can be 0 when the\nmin_chunk in the passed-in padata_mt_job structure is 0.\n\nFix this divide-by-0 panic by making sure that chunk_size will be at least\n1 no matter what the input parameters are.","published":"2024-08-26T11:15:04.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T01:18:49.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-369"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00236,"percentile":0.14489,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.24%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d45e1c948a8b7ed6ceddb14319af69424db730c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f5ffd2af7274853ff91d6cd62541191d9fbd10d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/924f788c906dccaca30acab86c7124371e1d6f2c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a29cfcb848c31f22b4de6a531c3e1d68c9bfe09f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab8b397d5997d8c37610252528edc54bebf9f6d3","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da0ffe84fcc1627a7dff82c80b823b94236af905","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00003.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-355557.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-613116.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43889","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}