5.5

CVE-2024-49887: f2fs: fix to don't panic system for no free segment fault injection

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-49887DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49887
Published 21-10-2024Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-49887 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.26%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 12 · Related 14

Timeline

  1. 21-10-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to don't panic system for no free segment fault injection f2fs: fix to don't panic system for no free segment fault injection syzbot reports a f2fs bug as below: F2FS-fs (loop0): inject no free segment in get_new_segment of __allocate_new_segment+0x1ce/0x940 fs/f2fs/segment.c:3167 F2FS-fs (loop0): Stopped filesystem due to reason: 7 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2748! CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5109 Comm: syz-executor304 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-syzkaller-00363-g89f5e14d05b4 #0 RIP: 0010:get_new_segment fs/f2fs/segment.c:2748 [inline] RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x1f61/0x1f70 fs/f2fs/segment.c:2836 Call Trace: __allocate_new_segment+0x1ce/0x940 fs/f2fs/segment.c:3167 f2fs_allocate_new_section fs/f2fs/segment.c:3181 [inline] f2fs_allocate_pinning_section+0xfa/0x4e0 fs/f2fs/segment.c:3195 f2fs_expand_inode_data+0x5d6/0xbb0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1799 f2fs_fallocate+0x448/0x960 fs/f2fs/file.c:1903 vfs_fallocate+0x553/0x6c0 fs/open.c:334 do_vfs_ioctl+0x2592/0x2e50 fs/ioctl.c:886 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:905 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl+0x81/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0010:get_new_segment fs/f2fs/segment.c:2748 [inline] RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x1f61/0x1f70 fs/f2fs/segment.c:2836 The root cause is when we inject no free segment fault into f2fs, we should not panic system, fix it.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.26%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

18%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.26% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu102 products
  • linux< 6.8.0-64.67
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.8.0-1032.34
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 8b10d3653735e117bc1954ade80d75ad7b46b801, < 9f6e7a0512a57387d36f5e9e9635d6668cac13dd | ≥ 8b10d3653735e117bc1954ade80d75ad7b46b801, < 645ec43760e86d3079fee2e8b51fde7060a540d0 | ≥ 8b10d3653735e117bc1954ade80d75ad7b46b801, < 65a6ce4726c27b45600303f06496fef46d00b57f | 6.9
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.9, < 6.10.14 | ≥ 6.11, < 6.11.3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.11.4-1

3 vendors · 105 products

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