CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-50065
5.5 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-10-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ntfs3: Change to non-blocking allocation in ntfs_d_hash
d_hash is done while under "rcu-walk" and should not sleep.
__get_name() allocates using GFP_KERNEL, having the possibility
to sleep when under memory pressure. Change the allocation to
GFP_NOWAIT.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.44 < 6.6.57)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11 < 6.11.4)
• linux linux kernel 6.12