5.5

CVE-2024-56630: linux Use of Uninitialized Resource

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56630DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56630
Published 27-12-2024Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-56630 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% 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
0.26%
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 47 · Related 45
DLA-4075-1DLA-4076-1MGASA-2025-0030MGASA-2025-0032SUSE-SU-2025:0289-1SUSE-SU-2025:0428-1

Timeline

  1. 27-12-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: free inode when ocfs2_get_init_inode() fails syzbot is reporting busy inodes after unmount, for commit 9c89fe0af826 ("ocfs2: Handle error from dquot_initialize()") forgot to call iput() when new_inode() succeeded and dquot_initialize() failed.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.26%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

16%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.26% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.26%

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

Ubuntu135 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.4.0-211.231 | < 5.15.0-135.146 | < 6.8.0-58.60
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.4.0-1142.152 | < 5.15.0-1080.87 | < 6.8.0-1027.29
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 9c89fe0af826bfff36d8019ea6fd78db09b3c478, < 911fcc95b530615b484e8920741fc5e4bc4e684a | ≥ 9c89fe0af826bfff36d8019ea6fd78db09b3c478, < 9c19ea59965ebb482e227532f7bbb01792fb028c | ≥ 9c89fe0af826bfff36d8019ea6fd78db09b3c478, < c5327720a4655303ffa3f632d86ee205dd783f32 | ≥ 9c89fe0af826bfff36d8019ea6fd78db09b3c478, < 67c2c6d0564ca05348ba4f8f6eaf7a0713f56c15 | ≥ 9c89fe0af826bfff36d8019ea6fd78db09b3c478, < a84d507d3290aca249b44ae992af9e10590cc5f6 | ≥ 9c89fe0af826bfff36d8019ea6fd78db09b3c478, < 03db61c43c8e2729896fda6b9a95c7fb5c875c20 | ≥ 9c89fe0af826bfff36d8019ea6fd78db09b3c478, < 965b5dd1894f4525f38c1b5f99b0106a07dbb5db | 4.3
  • linux_kernel≥ 4.3, < 5.4.287 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.231 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.174 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.120 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.66 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.5 | 6.13:rc1
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.123-1 | < 6.12.5-1

3 vendors · 138 products

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