CVE-2024-50272

medium
Published 2025-05-13 · Modified 2025-05-13
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-50272

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50272.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel9fixed
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed6.1.119-1
debian debianbullseyefixed6.1.119-1~deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed6.11.9-1
debian debiansidfixed6.11.9-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.11.9-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.