5.5

CVE-2024-50272: linux Infinite Loop

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50272DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50272
Published 19-11-2024Last modified 23-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-50272 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Infinite Loop vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.27%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 32 · Related 31
DLA-4008-1DSA-5818-1RHSA-2025:6966SUSE-SU-2025:0117-1SUSE-SU-2025:0153-1SUSE-SU-2025:0154-1

Timeline

  1. 19-11-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: filemap: Fix bounds checking in filemap_read() If the caller supplies an iocb->ki_pos value that is close to the filesystem upper limit, and an iterator with a count that causes us to overflow that limit, then filemap_read() enters an infinite loop. This behaviour was discovered when testing xfstests generic/525 with the "localio" optimisation for loopback NFS mounts.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.27%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

18%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.27% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.27%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu133 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-144.157 | < 6.8.0-58.60
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1088.95 | < 6.8.0-1027.29
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ c2a9737f45e27d8263ff9643f994bda9bac0b944, < 6cc52df69e8464811f9f6fc12f7aaa78451eb0b8 | ≥ c2a9737f45e27d8263ff9643f994bda9bac0b944, < 26530b757c81f1389fb33ae0357500150933161b | ≥ c2a9737f45e27d8263ff9643f994bda9bac0b944, < a2746ab3bbc9c6408da5cd072653ec8c24749235 | ≥ c2a9737f45e27d8263ff9643f994bda9bac0b944, < 6450e73f4c86d481ac2e22e1bc848d346e140826 | ≥ c2a9737f45e27d8263ff9643f994bda9bac0b944, < ace149e0830c380ddfce7e466fe860ca502fe4ee | 272830350bb1bb5bb39395966ea63b9864b135d1 | fbc7b803831e5c8a42c1f3427a17e55a814d6b3c | 3d549dcfbbb0ecdaa571431a27ee5da9f2466716 | ≥ 3.16.40, < 3.17 | ≥ 4.7.10, < 4.8 | ≥ 4.8.4, < 4.9 | 4.9
  • linux_kernel≥ 3.16.40, < 3.17 | ≥ 4.7.10, < 4.8 | ≥ 4.8.4, < 4.9 | ≥ 4.9, < 6.1.117 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.61 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.11.8 | 6.12:rc1 | 6.12:rc2 | 6.12:rc3 | 6.12:rc4 | 6.12:rc5 | 6.12:rc6
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.119-1 | < 6.11.9-1

3 vendors · 136 products

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