5.5

CVE-2024-58078: linux

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58078DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58078
Published 06-03-2025Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-58078 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7.4% 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
0.18%
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 19 · Related 20
SUSE-SU-2025:01919-1SUSE-SU-2025:1177-1SUSE-SU-2025:1178-1SUSE-SU-2025:1180-1SUSE-SU-2025:20190-1SUSE-SU-2025:20192-1

Timeline

  1. 06-03-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: misc_minor_alloc to use ida for all dynamic/misc dynamic minors misc_minor_alloc was allocating id using ida for minor only in case of MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR but misc_minor_free was always freeing ids using ida_free causing a mismatch and following warn: > > WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 159 at lib/idr.c:525 ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f > > ida_free called for id=127 which is not allocated. > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ... > > [<60941eb4>] ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f > > [<605ac993>] misc_minor_free+0x3e/0xbc > > [<605acb82>] misc_deregister+0x171/0x1b3 misc_minor_alloc is changed to allocate id from ida for all minors falling in the range of dynamic/ misc dynamic minors

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.18%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

7%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.18% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.18%

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

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu106 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≥ ab760791c0cfbb1d7a668f46a135264f56c8f018, < 3df72111c39f7e4c5029c9ff720b56ec2e05b764 | ≥ ab760791c0cfbb1d7a668f46a135264f56c8f018, < 8b4120b3e060e137eaa8dc76a1c40401088336e5 | ≥ ab760791c0cfbb1d7a668f46a135264f56c8f018, < 6635332d246d7db89b90e145f2bf937406cecaf0 | ≥ ab760791c0cfbb1d7a668f46a135264f56c8f018, < 6d04d2b554b14ae6c428a9c60b6c85f1e5c89f68 | 6.2
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.78 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.14 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.13.3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.12.15-1

3 vendors · 109 products

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