5.5

CVE-2024-53685: linux Infinite Loop

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-53685DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53685
Published 11-01-2025Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-53685 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Infinite Loop vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13% 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
0.23%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 38 · Related 35
DLA-4075-1DLA-4076-1DSA-5860-1MGASA-2025-0030MGASA-2025-0032SUSE-SU-2025:0289-1

Timeline

  1. 11-01-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: give up on paths longer than PATH_MAX If the full path to be built by ceph_mdsc_build_path() happens to be longer than PATH_MAX, then this function will enter an endless (retry) loop, effectively blocking the whole task. Most of the machine becomes unusable, making this a very simple and effective DoS vulnerability. I cannot imagine why this retry was ever implemented, but it seems rather useless and harmful to me. Let's remove it and fail with ENAMETOOLONG instead.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.23%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

13%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.22% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.23%

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

Ubuntu136 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-135.146 | < 6.8.0-60.63
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1080.87 | < 6.8.0-1029.31
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 9030aaf9bf0a1eee47a154c316c789e959638b0f, < 0f2b2d9e881c90402dbe28f9ba831775b7992e1f | ≥ 9030aaf9bf0a1eee47a154c316c789e959638b0f, < d42ad3f161a5a487f81915c406f46943c7187a0a | ≥ 9030aaf9bf0a1eee47a154c316c789e959638b0f, < e4b168c64da06954be5d520f6c16469b1cadc069 | ≥ 9030aaf9bf0a1eee47a154c316c789e959638b0f, < c47ed91156daf328601d02b58d52d9804da54108 | ≥ 9030aaf9bf0a1eee47a154c316c789e959638b0f, < 99a37ab76a315c8307eb5b0dc095d8ad9d8efeaa | ≥ 9030aaf9bf0a1eee47a154c316c789e959638b0f, < 550f7ca98ee028a606aa75705a7e77b1bd11720f | 2.6.34
  • linux_kernel≥ 2.6.35, < 5.10.234 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.177 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.125 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.70 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.7 | 2.6.34 | 2.6.34:rc2 | 2.6.34:rc3 | 2.6.34:rc4 | 2.6.34:rc5 | 2.6.34:rc6 | 2.6.34:rc7 | 6.13:rc1 | 6.13:rc2 | 6.13:rc3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.128-1 | < 6.12.8-1

3 vendors · 139 products

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